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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Feb 2, 2008 18:52:51 GMT 3
I thought the on-oq theory & tujue was the same the eastern half of the empire kept the title gok turk & the western half was called on-oq Not actually, İbrahim Kafesoğlu insisted that the Oghuz were from the Eastern Blue Turk (Tūjué 突厥). He thought that some of the Eastern Blue Turks migrated westwards and became the Oghuz. But there are no evidences to proove this theory. I would like to give two additional informations about the earliest mentioning of the Oghuz people. The first historical and contemporary record about the Oghuz living north of Sir Darya (Iaxartes, Seyhun) dates from the year 822, when the Abbasid governor of Khorasan sent 2,000 Oghuz captives from that region to Baghdad to become ghulams. One of them was Tolun, father of Ahmed, founder of the later Tolunid dynasty in Egypt. This information is very important, because it shows us that the Oghuz had been living there as early as the early 9th century. Another interesting info is given by the 10th century Iranian historian Tabarî, who says that the Oghuz migrated there in the 8th century; however, he wrote his work two centuries after the mentioned migration, which makes this information a bit doubteable.
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