| Group: | Qiziq |
| Native Name Lang: | tr |
| Popplace: |  Turkey
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| Languages: | Turkish |
| Rels: | Islam |
| Related: | Turkish people |
Qiziq (Turkish: Kızık), also spelled Qïzïq, Qyzyk, or Qyzyq, is an Oghuz tribe. The tribe mainly inhabits the provinces of Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş, Bursa, Tokat, and Ankara in Turkey.[1]
Qiziq was included as one of the 24 Oghuz tribes in Jami' al-tawarikh by Rashid al-Din Hamadani[2] but was considered as a Khalaj tribe by Mahmud al-Kashgari.[3] [4] In mid-18th century, Danish traveler Carsten Niebuhr listed Qiziq as a Turkoman tribe with 2000 tents dwelling around Aintab.[5] [6] Until the late 19th century, the tribe's region of settlement fell within the nahiya of Qiziq (in the sanjak of Aintab), named after the tribe.[4] [7]
A folk dance called Qiziq halay (Turkish: Kızık halayı) is danced around Sivas, Tokat, and Yozgat in Central Anatolia.[4] [8]
The tribe inhabits 22 villages in the northern portion of the province of Gaziantep and share several other villages with other tribes. Many of the old names of the Qiziq-inhabited villages bear the name of the tribe.[1]