Amuca tribe

The Amuca tribe (in Turkish: Amuca Kabilesi) is one of the nomadic Oghuz Turks tribes, of the Ottoman Empire, which moved from Anatolia to the Balkans. At the end of 14th Century, this clan established a settled life in Ottoman Thrace. Today some of them live in Kırklareli Province. The first founded village of this tribe was Keşirlik, located in the Mahya Dağı.

Origin

Amuca Tribe, belongs to the longitudinal Kayı tribe. They are derived from relatives of the Ottoman Dynasty through Amucalar, descendants of Gündüz Alp, the oldest son of Ertoğrul.

They speak a dialect of old Ottoman Turkish language.

References

Turkic peoples

Peoples

Azerbaijani communities	Azerbaijanis Iranian Azerbaijanis see Iranian Azerbaijan Georgian Azerbaijanis Western Azerbaijanis (Armenia)
Gagauz communities	Gagauz people
Kazakh communities	Kazakhs Chinese Kazakhs Naimans
Kyrgz communities	Kyrgyz people Chinese Kyrgyz
Turkmen¹ communities	Turkmen people Afghan Turkmen Iranian Turkmen
Turkish communities²	Turkish people see Yörüks, Muhacirs Abkhazian Turks Algerian Turks see Kouloughlis Bosnian Turks Bulgarian Turks Croatian Turks Cretan Turks Cypriot Turks Dodecanese Turks Egyptian Turks Iraqi Turkmen/Turkoman¹ see Turkmeneli Israeli Turks Kosovan Turks Lebanese Turks Libyan Turks Macedonian Turks Meskhetian (Ahiska) Turks Montenegrin Turks Romanian Turks see Ada Kaleh Serbian Turks Syrian Turkmen/Turkoman¹ see Turkmen Mountain Tunisian Turks Western Thracian Turks
Uzbek communities	Uzbeks Afghan Uzbeks Karakalpaks
Turkic minorities in China	Chinese Tatars Chinese Kazakhs Chinese Kyrgyz Salar Uyghurs see Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Yugur
Turkic minorities in Crimea	Crimean Karaites Crimean Tatars Krymchaks
Turkic minorities in Iran	Iranian Azerbaijanis Afshar Khalajs Khorasani Turks Qashqai
Turkic minorities in the Russian Federation	Altays Astrakhan Tatars Balkars Baraba Tatars Bashkirs Chelkans Chulyms Chuvash Dolgans Karachays Khakas Kryashens Kumandins Kumyks Mishar Tatars Nağaybäk Nogais Siberian Tatars Shors Telengits Teleuts Tofalar Tubalar Tuvans Volga Tatars see Finnish Tatars, Lipka Tatars Yakuts
Extinct Turkic groups	Bulaqs Bulgars Cumans Dughlats Karluks Khazars Kimek Kipchaks Oghuz Turks Qizilbash Shatuo Turgesh

Diasporas

¹ The Turkmen people living in Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Iran are not to be confused with the Turkmen/Turkoman minorities in the Levant (i.e. Iraq and Syria) as the latter minorities mostly adhere to a Ottoman-Turkish heritage and identity.
² This list only includes traditional areas of Turkish settlement (i.e. Turks still living in the former Ottoman territories).

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