TheTurkic termoğuz oroğur (inz- andr-Turkic, respectively) is a historical term for "military division, clan, or tribe" among theTurkic peoples.With theMongol invasions of 1206–21, the Turkickhaganates were replaced byMongol or hybridTurco-Mongol confederations, where the corresponding military division came to be known asorda.
The stemuq-, oq- "kin, tribe" is from a Proto-Turkic*uk.The Old Turkic word has often been connected withoq "arrow";[1]Pohl (2002) in explanation of this connection adduces the ChineseT'ang-shu chronicle, which reports: "the khan divided his realm into ten tribes. To the leader of each tribe, he sent an arrow. The name [of these ten leaders] was 'the tenshe', but they were also called 'the ten arrows'."[2][3]Anoguz (ogur) was in origin a military division of aNomadic empire, which acquired tribal or ethnic connotations, by processes ofethnogenesis.[3]
1These are traditional areas of settlement; the Turkic group has been living in the listed country/region for centuries and should not be confused with modern diasporas. 2State with limited international recognition.
