Kayı tribe
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The Kayı tribe or Kai tribe (Turkish: Kayı boyu) were an ancient Oghuz Turkic people and a sub-branch of the Bozok tribal federation. The word "kayı" means "the one who has might and power by relationship". Osman I, founder of Ottoman Empire was a member of the Kayı tribe.[1]
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Shaw, Stanford Jay. "History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey". Cambridge University Press, 1976. page 306
[edit] References
- Kafesoğlu, İbrahim. Türk Milli Kültürü. Türk Kültürünü Araştırma Enstitüsü, 1977. page 134
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