Bagha Shad Explained

Bagha Shad
Prince of Western Turkic Qaghanate
Father:Yangsu Tegin
Issue:Böri Shad
Royal House:Ashina of Turks
Religion:Tengrism

Bagha Shad (|translit=baγa šad,) was a Göktürk shad or general of the early 7th century CE. He was a close kinsman and subject of the Western Göktürk khagan, Tong Yabghu.[1] Bagha Shad was probably the father of Böri Shad and may have been the yabghu or prince of the Khazars.[2]

He is referred to in Chinese sources as having sojourned in China in 618–626, possibly as Tong Yabghu's emissary to the Tang emperor.[3] Thereafter he disappears from the historical record.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Christian 283
  2. Artamanov 128; Pletnyeva 15–16.
  3. Artamanov 146–147; Christian 299 at n.26 (citing Gumilev 159.)
  4. Christian 299 at n. 26.