Baharlu (ethnic group)
The Baharlu (Azerbaijani: بهارلی; Persian: بهارلو), also spelled Bahārlou, Baharloo, Baharlooe, are a Turkic ethnic group living in Hamadan, Fars, Kerman, Azerbaijan and Khorasan in Iran. Fars embraces the bulk of Baharlu tribe members and is identified as the provenance of the tribe.[2]
In the period following the collapse of the Qara Qoyunlu Empire, the Bahārlūs who remained in western Iran, along with several other Qara Qoyunlu tribes, gradually settled in Azerbaijan. It appears they collaborated with the Aq Qoyunlu; indeed, there is mention of a Ḥasan Beg Šakaroḡlū who was an ally of the Aq Qoyunlu ruler Alvand Beg when he was attacked by Shah Ismail I Safavid in Nahjavan in 1501-02.[3]
See also
References
- ^ "BAYRAM KHAN". Encyclopaedia Iranica.
Bayram Khan belonged to the Bahārlū clan of the Qara Qoyunlū Turkmen (Nehāvandī, I, p. 11), whose descendants still live in the Dārābjerd region of Fārs province (Ṣafā, IV, p. 13).
- ^ "BAHĀRLŪ a Turkic tribe of Azerbaijan, Khorasan, Kermān, and Fārs". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 12 April 2013. (also in print in Vol. III, Fasc. 5, pp. 482-484)
- ^ "BAHĀRLŪ". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Retrieved 2026-01-10.
Further reading
- Minorsky, V. (1960). "Bahārlū". In Gibb, H. A. R.; Kramers, J. H.; Lévi-Provençal, E.; Schacht, J.; Lewis, B. & Pellat, Ch. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume I: A–B. Leiden: E. J. Brill. OCLC 495469456.