Musabazari

There is little information about the origin of this tribe, as well as about the time of its justification on the southern slopes of the Gissar Range. There is no doubt only that the early Turkic tribes and mountain Tajiks took part in the formation of the musabazari, as well as the Kaltatais . Both themselves and the population around them ranked the musabazars as Türks .

The explanation of this ethnonym by its bearers themselves is the most primitive: the ancestor was a certain Musa or Musabay, who loved to go to the bazaar and when they asked his family where the owner was, they invariably answered that Musa had gone to the bazaar. B. Kh. Karmysheva registered the following names of tribal and territorial groups of musabazari: chori, kulobi, yulmo, kaltatai, tajik, ortabuzi, kalaidzhavri, dega.

Musabazari were recorded only on the southern slopes of the Gissar Range, mainly between the Hanakadarya and Obizarang rivers, mainly in the high parts of the foothills and in the mountains. At the beginning of the XX century. in the upper basin of Khanakadarya, Karatagdarya and Obizarang, only 30 musabazari villages were registered. The largest of them were Anjir, Annahoja, Asbab, Beshteppa, Gulhas, Kambar, Tallik, Tashabad and others. Musabazari, like other groups of Turks, repeatedly moved from Hisar to Shakhrisabz and back in search of places where you could continue to do your traditional occupation - sheep breeding.

Barlas , Kaltatai , Karluk Turk lived on the slopes of the mountains below the musabazaar, closer to the city centers, which is why they communicated more with the surrounding population. Musabazari lived deeper in the mountains, more in isolation. The remaining Turks considered them darker, uncouth and treated them with some neglect. This suggests that most likely the musabazars are the remains of one of the earliest parts of the nomadic Turkic tribes Mavaraunnakhra ^[1] , driven into the mountains.