title: “Turcoman Gypsies:” The intersectional/multiple identities of a peripatetic group and its historical segmentation
abstract: The early eighteenth-century Ottoman state correspondences reference a peripatetic group in Rumelia identified as the “Turcoman Gypsies” ( Türkmān Ḳibṭīleri ). This group originated from Southern Anatolia and actively engaged with Turkic tribal organizations, notably the Zulkadriyye spin-offs ( ifrāz-ı Ẕūlkadriyye ). In response to discontent with Ottoman policies that sought to settle mobile populations in the late seventeenth century, they modified their traditional migratory routes. This led 
journal: Romani Studies