[custom_adv] Qashqai is a conglomeration of clans in homeland consisting of mostly Turkic peoples but also Lurs, Kurds, and Arabs.Almost all of them speak a Western Ghuz Turkic dialect that they call Turki, as well as Persian in formal use. [custom_adv] the Qashqai mainly live in the persian provinces of Fars, Khuzestan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Bushehr, and southern Isfahan, especially around the cities of Shiraz and Firuzabad in Fars. [custom_adv] The majority of Qashqai people were originally nomadic pastoralists and some remain so today. The traditional nomadic Qashqai travelled with their flocks twice yearly to and from the summer highland pastures north of Shiraz roughly 480 km or 300 miles south to the winter pastures on lower (and warmer) lands near the Persian Gulf, to the southwest of Shiraz. [custom_adv] The majority, however, have now become partially or wholly sedentary. The trend towards settlement has been increasing markedly since the 1960s. [custom_adv] The Qashqai are made up of five major tribes: the Amale (Qashqai) / Amaleh (Persian), the Dere-Shorlu / Darreh-Shuri, the Kashkollu / Kashkuli, the Shishbeyli / Sheshboluki, and the Eymur / Farsimadan.Smaller tribes include the Qaracha / Qarache'i, Rahimli / Rahimi, and Safi-Khanli / Safi-Khani. [custom_adv] Historically, the Turkic languages are believed to have arrived in homeland from Central Asia from the 11th or 12th centuries onwards."To survive, nomads have always been obliged to fight. They lead a wandering life and do not accumulate documents and archives. [custom_adv] But in the evenings, around fires that are burning low, the elders will relate striking events, deeds of valour in which the tribes pride themselves. Thus the epic tale is told from father to son, down through the ages. [custom_adv] The tribes of Central Asia were forced by wars, strife, upheavals, to abandon their steppes and seek new pasture grounds...so the Huns, the Visigoths, and before them the Aryans, had invaded India, homeland, Europe. [custom_adv] The Turks, forsaking the regions where they had dwelt for centuries, started moving down through the Altai Mountains and Caspian depressions, establishing themselves eventually on the frontiers of the persian Empire and in Asia Minor.
