Barlas

Barlas
برلاس

Barulas
Constitutive tribes of the Khamag Mongol Confederations the Barlas were showing in 1207
Parent houseBorjigin
Country
Current regionCentral Asia
Place of originKhamag Mongol Confederation
FoundedEarly to Mid 12th-Centuries
FounderIn Mongolia:
Qachuli Barlas

In Transoxiana:
Qarachar Barlas
TitlesKhan
Sheikh
Mirza
Beg
Shah
Sardar
Emir
Ghazi
Sultan
TraditionsTengrism
later
Sunni Islam
Estate(s)Kesh; Samarkand
Cadet branches

The Barlas (Mongolian: Barulās; Chagatai Turkic/Persian: برلاس Barlās; also Berlās) were a Mongol tribal confederation clan, which later became Turkified in Central Asia, forming a nomadic confederation. They were a sub-clan of the Borjigin, emerged within the Khamag Mongol confederation in present-day Mongolia in the early to mid-12th century, and traced their military roots to one of the elite regiments of the Mongol Empire’s Kheshig guard. The Barlas spawned as one imperial dynasties with two major empires in Asia: the Timurid Empire in Central Asia and Persia; and its later branch, the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent.