Draft:Velioğlu (tribe)

The Velioğlu (formerly Munzuroğlu) are a Turkic tribe mostly living in Turkey.

History
The tribe is from modern-day Uzbekistan, and they migrated to Anatolia in 1550 and were placed in the Munzur region by the Ottoman state. They formed a tribe named Munzuroğlu, inspired by the name of the region they were in. They left Munzur in 1759-1760, and came to the Zeyve region of Baskil and settled here. In 1789-1790, the daughter of Veli, the tribal leader, was kidnapped by members of the same tribe, and the kidnappers were killed by the sons of Veli. After the incident, the tribe decided to leave Zeyve, with one of the conflicting sides going to Erzurum and the other going to Malatya, so that the blood feud would not grow any more. The Ottoman state, who wanted to eliminate the authority gap in the region, wanted to give the tribe principality (Ağalık) to the Munzuroğlu tribe. They started migrating, which was when they stopped using Munzuroğlu and began using Velioğlu after their original leader. Today they largely live in the provinces Sivas, Yozgat, Giresun, Sakarya, Trabzon, Esiroğlu, Kastamonu, Bayburt, Zonguldak, Erzurum, Malatya, Elazığ, Şanlıurfa, Kars, Iğdır, Gaziantep, Rize, İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Osmaniye, Adana, Tunceli, Sinop, and many other Turkish provinces and even in some other former Ottoman states.

The tribe has no relation to Hüseyin Velioğlu.