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Afshar tribe
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Afshar people
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
.
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