People / group
Bayat tribe
The Bayat are a Turkic tribe of the Oghuz confederation, listed among its tribes by Mahmud al-Kashgari in the 11th century. Bayat groups moved west with the Seljuk and later migrations into Iran, Anatolia and the Caucasus, and under the Safavids they were one of the Qizilbash tribes. Bayat khans ruled Maku in north-western Iran from the 18th century.
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