Merv, the Queen of the
World;
and the Scourge of the Man-stealing Turcomans. With an
Exposition of the Khorassan Question:
By Charles Thomas Marvin, Published by W.H. Allen, 1881
CHAPTER III. THE ORIGIN OF THE Turkmen.
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE MINOR TRIBES.
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GROWTH O\f' THE TEKKE (Teke) TRIBE.
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Burnes inclines to "
Toork-manind," " like a Turk," from a
mixture of races produced by the inhabitants of Turkmenia
seizing on the neighboring nations ; and Klaproth to
" Turk " and " Coman," and that it
was given to that part of the Coman nation which remained
on the east of the Caspian sea, under the denomination of
the Turks of the Altai. Vambery,
however, says that the “word is compounded of the
proper name Turk and the suffix men (corresponding with
the English suffix ship, dom); it is applied to the whole
race, conveying the sense that the nomads style
themselves pre-eminently Turks. The word in use with us,
Turcoman, is a corruption of the Turkish original."*
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Notwithstanding their unbounded lust
for war and their unrestrained adventurous character,
which originated, to a great extent, in the naked and
barren soil of the steppes, the Turkmen
never rose to an united action, but were separated by
continual feuds, and subjected to frequent change of
abode, as well as to a constant fluctuation of their
numerical conditions.'^ Latterly, however, the Tekke
tribe has developed amazingly and absorbed the Salor
tribe.
Could
the Russian conquest be stayed 50 years, the Tekkes might
absorb the Goklans, Yomuds, and the rest of the tribes,
and by a development of the principle of transmission of
power from father to son, which was initiated a few years
ago when Noor Verdi Khan made his son Berdi Murad leader
of the Akhal Tekkes, on quitting Akhal to assume the
* Travel in Central Asia. \ Vambery's Lecture, 1880.
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