Salur

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The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Salur (disambiguation) .

The sign of Salur

The Salur were an important Oghuz tribe. Other spellings are Salar , Salır and Salyr ( Turkmen ).

Mahmud al-Kāshgharī mentioned them under the name Salghur (Salġur) as one of the 24 Oghuz tribes. As a totem animal they had an imperial eagle . Their tribal name means in Old Turkish the one who wields the sword .

From the Salur, which came with the Seljuks from Central Asia to Anatolia and the Middle East in the 11th century , the dynasty of the Salghurids emerged, who ruled between 1148 and 1282 as Atabegs of Fars . Furthermore, the Seljuk ruler and vizier Kadi Burhan al-Din belonged to the Salur; He was the last ruler of the Anatolian Beyliks Eretna .

In the western Chinese provinces of Gansu , Qinghai and Xinjiang there are descendants of the Salur, which are now called Salar . These migrated eastwards from western Central Asia in the 14th and 15th centuries and settled in western China.

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