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Manavs

Manavlar
Traditional Manav clothes from Kandıra, Kocaeli
Total population
Turkey; East Marmara Region, Marmara Region, Aegean Region
Languages
Turkish Old Anatolian Turkish (historical)
Religion
Sunni Islam (Hanafism)
Related ethnic groups
Turkic peoples

Manavs (Turkish: Manavlar) or Manav Turks (Manav Türkleri) are a Turkic people living in northwest Anatolia, especially in Sakarya, Bilecik, Balıkesir, Bursa, Çanakkale, Kocaeli, Eskişehir, Bolu and Düzce provinces. It is proposed that Manavs descend from Cumans and Kipchaks who settled in the Byzantine Empire.^[1][2][3][4]

Origin

A group of Cuman-Kipchaks who headed to the Balkans as a result of the Mongol incursions into the Desht-i Qipchaq lands; it is known that he entered the service of the Latin and Nicaea Empires. The Nicea Empire used this Cuman group against the Seljuk and Mongol threat and settled it in their lands. This Cuman-Kipchak group, which was settled in the territory of the Nicea Empire with the purpose of buffering against the threats from the East, interbred with the Oghuzs and formed the people called Manav.^[1][2][3][5]

Language

Manavs speak Turkish with a dialects bear traces of Kipchak and Oghuric to varying degrees, in relation to their origins.^{[6][7][2][8][9][10]}

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