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]