![]() Others, harried by the Kipchak Turks, crossed the lower Danube and invaded the Balkans, where they were stopped by a plague and became mercenaries for the Byzantine imperial forces (1065). Those who settled along the Russian frontier were gradually Slavicized and played a leading role as the Black Hat cavalry in 1100- and early 1200-era Russian armies. In the 11th century, a Tengriist Oghuz clan, referred to as Uzes or Torks in the chronicles of Rurikid Kievan Rus', overthrew Pecheneg supremacy in the steppes of Rus' Khaganate. In the 11th century, the Seljuk Oghuz clan entered Persia, where they founded the Great Seljuk Empire. They embraced Islam and adapted their traditions and institutions to the Islamic world, emerging as empire-builders with a constructive sense of statecraft. In the 10th century, the Oghuz inhabited the steppe of the rivers Sari-su, Turgai and Emba north of Lake Balkhash in modern-day Kazakhstan. In the 9th century, the Oghuz from the Aral steppes drove Bechens westward from the Emba and Ural River region. The Oghuz confederation migrated westward from the Jeti-su area after a conflict with the Karluk allies of the Uyghurs. The term Oghuz was gradually supplanted by the terms Turkmen and Turcoman ( Ottoman Turkish: تركمن, romanized: Türkmen or Türkmân) by 13th century. Byzantine sources call them Uzes (Οὐ̑ζοι, Ouzoi). Today, much of the populations of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan are descendants of Oghuz Turks. In the 8th century, they formed a tribal confederation conventionally named the Oghuz Yabgu State in Central Asia. The Oghuz Turks ( Middle Turkic: ٱغُز, romanized: Oγuz) were a western Turkic people who spoke the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family. ![]() Oghuz Turks Regions with significant populations Not to be confused with Toquz Oghuz, a pre- Uyghur tribal confederation.
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