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Seyitnazar Seydi

Died in 1836

Seyitnazar Seydi was born in the village of Lamma, in what is now the Garabekewül district, in Lebap; the sources place his birth between 1758 and 1775. Of the Ersary tribe, he studied in Bukhara and was a friend of the poet Zelili. A war leader as much as a poet, he led Turkmen horsemen against the rulers of Bukhara; forced to leave Lebap, he joined his friend. He died in 1836; a town in Lebap, renamed in 1990, bears his name today.

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