Their region is called Turkmen Sahra and includes substantial parts of Golestan Province of Iran.

Iranian Turkmens have represented a group of semi-nomadic tribes who retained a more traditional way for a long time.

Subsequently, most of the Turkmen Yomuds were forced to move from the Khiva Khanate to the coast of the Caspian Sea and to Astrabad.

In turn, Iranian troops attacked the Khwarazm, mainly the Turkmen lands, robbing and taking people into captivity.

The latter were initially located in the area of present-day Serhetabat, Turkmenistan, and then migrated to Iran, and finally settled 120 km above Serakhs.

[11] Nearly one million Turkmens can be found living along the northern edges of Iran, just south of the Turkmenistan-Iran border.