The Hazara-i-Karlugh ( fa, ) were the
Turkic soldiers that founded and ruled the
Turki Shahi dynasties from 1400 to 1700 in what is now the current
Hazara area of
Pakistan
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.
Etymology
Hazara-i-Karlugh literally means "
Hazara of
Karlugh origin". Karlugh is a Persian pronunciation of the Turkic word
Qarluq.
History
Hazara-i-Karlugh were settled in
Northern India
North India is a loosely defined region consisting of the northern part of India. The dominant geographical features of North India are the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the Himalayas, which demarcate the region from the Tibetan Plateau and Central ...
(now Hazara, Pakistan) by
Timur
Timur ; chg, ''Aqsaq Temür'', 'Timur the Lame') or as ''Sahib-i-Qiran'' ( 'Lord of the Auspicious Conjunction'), his epithet. ( chg, ''Temür'', 'Iron'; 9 April 133617–19 February 1405), later Timūr Gurkānī ( chg, ''Temür Kür ...
after his invasion of India in 1398-99
[The Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 13, p. 76]
See also
*
List of Hazara tribes
The Hazara people are an ethnic group who inhabit and originate from Hazarajat (Hazaristan) region, located in central parts of Afghanistan and generally scattered throughout Afghanistan. However, there are significant populations of Hazaras in P ...
References
Hazara tribes
Warfare of the Early Modern period
Military history of Pakistan
Turkic peoples of Asia
Nomadic groups in Eurasia
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