Oghuz Khan

Oghuz Khan is the legendary ancestor of the Oghuz Turks, celebrated in Turkic epic and genealogical tradition. Stories of his conquests and of his twenty-four grandsons, the ancestors of the Oghuz tribes, are told in the Uyghur Oghuzname and in Rashid al-Din's history. Dynasties including the Aq Qoyunlu and the Ottomans claimed descent from him through these tribes, and he is a national hero in modern Turkmenistan.