Karagla: Koluğlu/Köroğlu
The singular Turkish word is (Kargali), and it is made up of two parts: (Qul) and (Ugli), which means the son of a slave, and the slave here is used to refer to a soldier in the sense of loyalty to the Ottoman Sultan.
It is a term used during the Ottoman Empire to distinguish an ethnic group of mixed descendants resulting from the intermarriage of Turkish men and North African women.
Karagla is a comprehensive term used to refer to all countries ruled by the Ottoman Turks.
They are not necessarily all of Turkish nationality, but many of them are from the Balkan countries, Circassians, Bosnia, and Greece.
What did researchers and historians say about them?!
Opinions varied, as we find:
Jacques Philippe Laugier de Tassy:
He says that the children who came from the marriage of Turks to Algerian women are not considered Turks, but are called karagla and are not given much respect.
Simon Pfeiffer:
Their lineage may be attributed to the fact that they are children of Algerian women, without mentioning their fathers.
Habenstrait states that they are descended from Turkish fathers and Algerian mothers.
Hamdan bin Othman Khoja: He points out that they are born as a result of marriage between Turks and Arabs.
defonaine: He says that the Karagla are the children of the Turks from Andalusian or Christian women.
Not all Karagli are of Turkish origin, and not all Karagli have an Algerian mother.
According to what the researchers reported
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