Baharlu (ethnic group)
The Baharlu (Azerbaijani: Baharlı; 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.[1] They speak one of the southern dialects of the Azerbaijani language.[2][3][4]
History
[edit]Vladimir Feodorovich Minorsky, Barānī (or Bārānlū), another name of which was Bahārlū, was a tribe that was dominant in the Qara Qoyunlu dynasty, separated from the Īvā tribe. According to J. Malcolm, they were originally a branch of the Šāmlūs, "brought to Persia from Syria by Timur".[5]
Prominent Baharlus
[edit]- Ahmadreza Baharloo – host of the Persian section of Voice of America (VOA)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "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)
- ^ Joshua Project. "Baharlu in Iran". Archived from the original on 2022-01-21.
- ^ "Azerbaijani, South". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2019-06-05.
- ^ "Baharlu". Glottolog. Archived from the original on 2022-01-21.
- ^ The History of Persia, London, 1829, I, s. 237.
Further reading
[edit]- 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.
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