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This is a list of nomadic people arranged by economic specialization and region. Nomadic people are communities who move from one place to another, rather than settling permanently in one location. Many cultures have traditionally been nomadic, but nomadic behavior is increasingly rare in industrialized countries.
Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas. Such groups include hunter-gatherers, pastoral nomads (owning livestock ), tinkers and trader nomads. [1] [2] In the twentieth century, the population of nomadic pastoral tribes slowly decreased, reaching an estimated 30–40 million nomads in the world as of ...
Eurasian nomads. The Eurasian nomads were groups of nomadic peoples living throughout the Eurasian Steppe, who are largely known from frontier historical sources from Europe and Asia. [1] A nomad is a member of people having no permanent abode, who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.
Nomadic empires, sometimes also called steppe empires, Central or Inner Asian empires, were the empires erected by the bow -wielding, horse -riding, nomadic people in the Eurasian Steppe, from classical antiquity ( Scythia) to the early modern era ( Dzungars ). They are the most prominent example of non- sedentary polities .
Palestine Exploration Fund list of Bedouin tribes living West of the River Jordan in 1875. In the late 19th century, many Bedouin began transition to a semi-nomadic lifestyle. One of the factors was the influence of the Ottoman empire authorities who started a forced sedentarization of the Bedouin living on its territory.
Sometimes also described as "nomadic" (in the figurative or extended sense) is the itinerant lifestyle of various groups subsisting on craft, trade or seasonal labour rather than on livestock. [5] Romani people and Irish Travellers are the best known of these. [6] See itinerant groups in Europe for those.
Category. : Modern nomads. This category is ambiguously titled and should be split to distinguish two separate scopes: groups practicing actual nomadic pastoralism today ( Category:Nomads) "itinerant" groups (sometimes described as "nomadic" in a loose sense of the word) traditionally itinerant groups (romani, "indigenous travellers", etc.) neo ...
Pages in category "Nomadic groups in Eurasia" The following 163 pages are in this category, out of 163 total. ... Khitan people; Khvalynsk culture; Kidarites;