Karategin Uzbeks

A Karategin Uzbek in 1924
Total population
>100.000
Regions with significant populations
Afghanistan
Languages
Southern Uzbek
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Turkic peoples

The Karategin Uzbeks (formerly known as Dormon Uzbeks) are a Karluk-Turkic ethnic group, indigenous to Karategin, Tajikistan, but now living in the regions between Balkh and Kabul, in North Afghanistan. In the 16th century they were expelled by the Kyrgyz to their present homeland.

Name

The name Karategin derives from the historical region of Karategin, in Tajikistan. Before the Kyrgyz had expanded to the southern regions of Fergana, Kulob and Balkh, the Karategin Uzbeks (formerly known as Dormon Uzbeks) used to live there.

Sources

• 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.