Chepni (tribe)

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For the village in Turkey, see Çepni, Tosya.
Chepni
Cepni.svg
Tamgha of Chepni according Mahmud al-Kashgari[1]
Regions with significant populations
Iran (West Azerbaijan Province), Turkey (Black Sea Region)
Languages
Turkish (in Turkey)
Azerbaijani, Persian, Kurdish (in Iran)
Religion
Islam
Related ethnic groups
Oghuz Turks

Chepni (Azerbaijani: Çəpni, Turkish: Çepni, Turkmen: Çepni) is one of the 24 Oghuz Turkic tribes.[2]

History[]

In the legend of Oghuz Qaghan, the Chepni was stated as one of the clans of the tribe of Gök Han that consists of Pecheneg (Beçenek), Bayandur (Bayındır), Chowdur (Çavuldur) and Chepni, a part of Üç-Oklar branch of the Oghuz Turks.[3] According to Mahmud al-Kashgari's Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, it was the 21st tribe of the 22 Oghuz tribes.[1]

They had been converted to Islam (Sunni and Alevi). According to a Turkish historian, , the first murids of Haji Bektash Veli may be the Chepni residents of Suluca Kara Üyük (now a town of Nevşehir Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey)[4] and some Turkish historians claim that Haji Bektash Veli may be of Chepni origin.[5] Chepni people had an important role in the conquest of Trebizond during the 15th century whereas they had already started to conquer the provinces of Samsun and Sinop in 13th centuries. Most of Turkish people who settle in Gümüşhane, Giresun, Ordu, Samsun and the west of Trabzon descend from Chepni people.[6] There are also people from Chepni descent mainly in the cities of Çanakkale, Balıkesir, İzmir, Manisa and Denizli.

People with Chepni origin has also been called "Çetme", "Çetmi", "Çitme" in various regions of Anatolia where they named the villages they settled with these.

Language[]

In the 1330s, some Turkmens appeared in the coastal regions of the Pontus. A remarkable feature of the Pontic situation is that some groups of nomads apparently wandered Trapezuntine territories as subjects of the Grand Komnenoi. In addition to the case of the Christian Çepni, this is substantiated by linguistic data.

According to Brendemoen, by the 14th century, a group of Pontic nomads was bilingual and spoke both Turkic and Greek. Moreover, the earliest Turkic dialect of the Pontos was based on the Aqqoyunlu Turkic dialect under the influence of Pontic Greek.[7]

Present days[]

Today, a large group of Chepni resides in the east of Turkey; they are known as Chepni Turkmens and collectively with other Turkmens of the area as Yoruks or Turkmens of Anatolia.[8]

In Turkmenistan, Chepni is a clan among Geklen Turkmens living in the west of the country.[9]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Besim Atalay (ed.), Divanü Lügati't - Türk, Cilt I, Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 2006, ISBN 975-16-0405-2, p. 57.
  2. ^ Magnarella, Paul, Tradition and change in a Turkish town, Schenkman Pub. Co., 1981, p 35.
  3. ^ Faruk Sümer, Oğuzlar: Türkmenler, Tarihleri, Boy Teşkilâtı, Destanları, Türk Dünyası Araştırmaları Vakfı, 1992, ISBN 978-975-498-048-6, p. 172.
  4. ^ Faruk Sümer, Çepniler: Anadolu'daki Türk Yerleşmesinde Önemli Rol Oynayan Bir Oğuz Boyu, Türk Dünyası Araştırmaları Vakfı, 1992, ISBN 975-498-052-7, p. 22.
  5. ^ Halil İbrahim Türkyılmaz, Dünden Yarına Tüm Yönleriyle Eynesil, Eynesilliler Kültür ve Yardımlaşma Derneği, 1995, p. 50.
  6. ^ İnan, K. (2003), Trabzon'un Osmanlılar tarafından Fethi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, Sayı: 14, Yıl: 2013, Erciyes University, Turkey
  7. ^ Rustam Shukurov (2016). The Byzantine Turks, 1204-1461. p. 289.
  8. ^ Demir, Necati (2012). Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş Velî Araştırma Dergisi, p.63-110
  9. ^ Atanyýazov, Soltansha (1988). Словарь туркменских этнонимов [Dictionary of Turkmen Ethnonyms] (in Russian). ISBN 9785833800140.


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