Döğer
The Döğer were an Oghuz tribe. They settled mainly in what is now Turkey during the Seljuk conquest of the Middle East . Other spellings are Döğər ( Azerbaijani ) and Düker ( Turkmen ).
Mahmud al-Kāshgharī mentioned them under the name Töker as one of the 24 Oghusian tribes. As a totem animal they had a red-footed falcon . Their tribal name means in Old Turkish for gathering .
The Döğer came to Anatolia from Central Asia with the Seljuks in the 11th century . The rulers of the Ortoqids were descendants of the Döğer. The Ortoqids ruled northern Mesopotamia in the 11th and 12th centuries.
Today there are still remnants of the tribe in Turkey and Iran . In today's Turkey there are 12 places with the name Döğer, Düğer, Döver and Düver and in Iran one place with the name Dūger. In addition, Digor is the self-designation of the Muslim Ossetians . The self-designation of the Christian Ossetians, however, is Irættæ.