Karategin Uzbeks

Total population
>100.000
Regions with significant populations
Afghanistan
Languages
Southern Uzbek
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Turkic peoples

TheKarategin Uzbeks (formerly known asDormon Uzbeks) are aKarluk-Turkic ethnic group, indigenous toKarategin,Tajikistan, but now living in the regions betweenBalkh andKabul, in NorthAfghanistan. In the 16th century they were expelled by theKyrgyz to their present homeland.^{[citation needed]}

The name Karategin derives from the historical region ofKarategin, inTajikistan. Before the Kyrgyz had expanded to the southern regions ofFergana,Kulob andBalkh, the Karategin Uzbeks (formerly known as Dormon Uzbeks) used to live there.^{[citation needed]}

• Bukinich Dmitry, N. I. Vavilov's expedition to Afghanistan (1924),[1]. [The Institute of Applied Botany (Leningrad) sent an expedition to Afghanistan in 1924, consisting of the director of the Institute, Prof. N. I. Vavilov, the engineer-agronomist, D. D. Bukinich, and the agronomist, V. N. Lebedev.[2] During this period, the Karategin Uzbeks were recorded in the context of Anthropological fieldwork for the first time.]
• Кыргыздардын жана Кыргызстандын тарыхый булактары. II т. Бишкек [Historical sources of the Kyrgyz and Kyrgyzstan. Vol. 2, Bishkek], 2003. – pp. 221-238-б.

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