page_title: Shajara-i Tarākima
section_title: Tribal organization
hierarchical_section_title: Shajara-i Tarākima / Content / Tribal organization
caption_attribution_description: Original Description: Full-length profile portrait of Turkman woman, standing on a carpet at the entrance to a yurt, dressed in traditional clothing and jewelry.
context_page_description: Shajara-i Tarākima is a Chagatai-language historical work completed in 1659 by Khan of Khiva and historian Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur.
  Shajara-i Tarākima is one of the two works composed by Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur that have great importance in learning Central Asian history, the other being the Shajara-i Turk, which was completed by his son, Abu al-Muzaffar Anusha Muhammad Bahadur, in 1665. Shajara-i Tarākima describes the history of Turkmens since ancient times, the birth and life of the ancient ancestor of all Turkmens and the progenitor hero of all Turkic peoples - Oghuz Khan, his campaigns to conquer various countries and regions of Eurasia, as well as the rule of the Oghuz-Turkmen khans in the Middle Ages. Shajara-i Tarākima is also a significant literary work, as it describes numerous Turkmen folk legends, tales, etymologies of ethnonyms, proverbs and sayings.
context_section_description: According to the Genealogy of the Turkmens, Oghuz Khan had six sons in total, and each of them in turn had 4 sons from their first wives and several more from their other wives. Twenty-four grandsons from the first wives of the sons of Oghuz Khan were the ancestors of the 24 oldest and main Oghuz-Turkmen tribes and the heads of the so-called "Aimak". Each of the main 24 tribes was joined by other tribes whose ancestors were the grandsons of Oghuz Khan from the secondary wives of his sons and so on: this is the main association of several clans that formed a single "Aimak".
  Two united Aimaks formed "yuzluks". The yuzluks, in turn, were grouped into two main groups: "Bozoks" (senior tribes) and "Uchoks" (junior tribes). Thus, the entire ancient Oghuz-Turkmen people were divided into two parts (Bozok and Uchok): each of these parts was divided into 12 yuzluks, and each of the yuzluks was divided into two Aimaks.
  24 Oghuz Turkmen tribes according to the Genealogy of the Turkmens by Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur:
  Bozoks (Gray Arrows)
  Gün Han
  Kayı (Ottomans and Jandarids)
  Bayat (Qajars, Dulkadirids, Fuzûlî)
  Alkaevli
  Karaevli
  Ay Han
  Yazır
  Döger (Artuqids)
  Dodurga
  Yaparlı
  Yyldyz Han
  Afshar (Afsharids and Zengids)
  Kızık
  Begdili (Khwarazmian dynasty )
  Kargın
  Üçoks (Three Arrows)
  Gök Han
  Bayandur (founders of the Ak Koyunlu)
  Pecheneg
  Çavuldur (Tzachas)
  Chepni (refer to Küresünni)
  Dag Han
  Salur (Kadi Burhan al-Din, Salghurids and Karamanids; see also: Salars)
  Eymür
  Alayuntlu
  Yüreğir (Ramadanids)
  Dengiz Han
  Iğdır
  Büğdüz
  Yıva (Qara Qoyunlu and Oghuz Yabgu State)
  Kınık (founders of the Seljuk Empire)
caption: Turkmen woman at the entrance to a yurt in Turkestan; 1911 color photograph by Prokudin-Gorskii
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