#yorouks

[casimir0]

Colorful bride and wedding guests at a traditional Yörük wedding ceremony in the eastern region of Macedonia Photographed by Robert Jankuloski, 2003

[oztuvgan]

The Yörüks, also Yuruks or Yorouks are a Turkish group of people, some of whom are nomadic, primarily inhabiting the mountains of Anatolia and partly Balkan peninsula. Their name derives from the Turkish verb yürü- (yürümek in infinitive), which means "to walk", with the word yörük or yürük designating "those who walk, walkers". Yörüks lived within the Yörük Sanjak (Turkish: Yörük Sancağı) which was not a territorial unit like other sanjaks but a separate organisational unit of the Ottoman Empire.