Salur Kazan Tutsak Olup Oğlu Uruz Çıkardığı Boy'un Coğrafyası

There are many variants, copies, manuscripts of the Dede Korkut Epics, which are related to many types of narratives. Dede Korkut bears traces from different period of Turkic history, geography. As we go back to the old ages, the traces become fainter, as we come to the new ages, the traces become clearer. The historical geography of the epics is Central Asia, the vast Eurasian geography. Since it is an epic-story reflection of different periods of history, the Ic Oguz-Dis Oguz geography is found in some epics in Dede Korkut, in some epics it changes according to the side of political dominance, in some epics these concepts do not have their origins. The eleventh epic in the Book of Dede Korkut is Salur Kazan Tutsak Olup Oglu Uruz Cikardigi Boy. The subject of the epic is a son rescuing his father who was captured. The protagonists of the epic are Salur Kazan and Uruz. In this epic, both father and son are treated as protagonists. This epic is quite similar to Usun Koca Oglu Segrek Boyu and Kazilik Koca Oglu Yigenek Boyu, and the lowest layers of these three narratives are the same, they are different variants of the same epic. Salur Kazan Tutsak Olup Oglu Uruz Cikardigi Boy and Kazan Bey Oglu Uruz Bey’in Tutsak Olduğu Boy are two contradictory narratives. In Salur Kazan Tutsak Olup Oglu Uruz Cikardigi Boy, there are two main geographical layers in terms of historical-geographical-literary-cultural aspects: Lower Geography and Upper Geography. The existence of the Turkmenistan variant of the epic called Salir Gazanin Kamalmaki, its similarities with various narrations and epics, many place names mentioned in the epic indicate that the epic belongs to a history older than the 10th-11th centuries when the Oghuzs were in Central Asia before their migration to the west of the Caspian Sea, to Anatolia-Azerbaijan. Epics various motifs, variants and related narratives are seen in a wide geography. The geography of the epic is less certain. There are Karadaglar along the Sir Derya. In the upper geography of the epic, place names that may be related to the Akkoyunlu-Karakoyunlu geography are seen. The place names in the epic are generally of the type that can be seen everywhere in the vast Turkic geography, most of them are common names. In Salur Kazan Tutsak Olup Oglu Uruz Cikardigi Boy, the place names Agca-Kala, Ak-hisar Kalasi, Ak-Kaya, Ak-Saz, Ayasofya, Bayburd Hisari, Karadag, Karun Eli, Oguz Eli/Oguz, Sancida, Surmelu, Tomanin Kalesi, Trabuzan, Umman Denizi are mentioned. In this study, the geography of Salur Kazan Tutsak Olup Oglu Uruz Cikardigi Boy in Dede Korkut was examined.