Canbeg

Canbeg (Turkish: Canbeğli/Canbeğlu) is a Kurdish tribe[1] native to Bakur Kurdistan (Bakur meaning "north[ern]" in Kurdish), mostly populating Central Anatolia and Eastern Anatolia in Turkey. Members of the tribe mostly adhere to Sunnism of Islam but some are Alevi.[2] There's also few Zaza/Zazaki Canbeg members.

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