Due to their Alevi faith, they often lived in secluded areas, preserving a unique blend of Shamanistic and Alevi-Bektashi traditions.

[6]: 128 When Timur took Turkestan and Greater Khorasan under his rule, some of the Agaceris, who had to leave their homeland, settled in Iran and the majority in Anatolia.

It is known that Mehmed the Conqueror brought Tahtacı people from the villages in the Kaz Mountains of Balıkesir for the construction of the ships used during the conquest of Istanbul in 1453.

[7] In the written sources, the name Tahtacı is first encountered in the Ottoman tax population cadastral registers in the 16th century as Cemāat-ı Tahtacıyān (lit.

This has caused Tahtacı people to move their already secluded lives even to a further extent in forestry areas of Southern and Western Anatolia.

[9] Tahtacıs mainly live in Mersin, Adana, Antalya, Denizli, Isparta, Burdur, Muğla, Aydın, İzmir, Manisa, Balıkesir and Çanakkale.