Afshar tribe

The Afshar, also spelled Awshar or Afsar, are one of the Oghuz Turkic peoples. These originally nomadic Oghuz tribes moved from Central Asia and initially settled in Iranian Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan republic, Eastern Turkey. Later some of them relocated by the Safavids to Khurasan, Kerman and Mazandaran. Today, they are variously grouped as a branch of the Turkmens or the Azerbaijanis.