Elbegli

Elbegli (Turkish: Elbeyli or İlbeyli) is a Turkoman tribe mainly residing in Kilis, Gaziantep, and Sivas provinces in Turkey.

The tribe was mainly found around Sivas and Kemah before the Ottoman authorities resettled them near Sajur River[3] during the 17th[4] and 18th[5] centuries.

In mid-18th century, Carsten Niebuhr noted that the Elbeglis were 2 thousand tents in total, one half dwelling near Sivas and the other near Aleppo.

[7] Throughout the 18th century, smaller communities of Elbegli appeared in the Ottoman records for the regions of Adana, Antakya, Latakia, and Harran.

There are smaller numbers of Elbegli villages in the provinces of Yozgat, Kars, Iğdır, and Ordu.