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 Alaeddin Pasha, the son of Osman I.

They speak a dialect of old Ottoman Turkish language.

References

Turkic peoples

Altays Afshar Azerbaijanis Balkars Bashkirs Bulgars Chelkans Chulyms Chuvash Crimean Karaites Crimean Tatars Cumans Dolgans Dughlats Gagauz Iraqi Turkmen Karachays Karakalpaks Karluks Kazakhs Khakas Khalajs Khazars Khorasani Turks Kimek Kipchaks Krymchaks Kumandins Kumyks Kyrgyz Lipka Tatars Meskhetian Turks Mishar Tatars Finnish Tatars Nağaybäk Naimans Nogais Oghuz Turks Qarapapaqs Qashqai Qizilbash Salar Siberian Tatars Shatuo Shors Syrian Turkmen Telengits Teleuts Tofalar Tubalar Turgesh Turks (proper) diaspora Turkmens Tuvans Uyghurs Uzbeks Volga Tatars Yakuts Yugur

Italics indicate extinct group

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