Bagha Shad
{{ Infobox Monarch
|name= Bagha Shad
|title= Prince of Western Turkic Qaghanate
|father =Yangsu Tegin
|issue =Böri Shad
|royal house=Ashina of Turks
|religion=Tengrism
}}
Bagha Shad ({{langx|otk|𐰉𐰍𐰀𐱁𐰑|translit=baγa šad}}, {{zh|t=莫賀設|s=莫贺设|p=mòhè shè|w=mo-ho she}}) 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.Christian 283 Bagha Shad was probably the father of Böri Shad and may have been the yabghu or prince of the Khazars.Artamanov 128; Pletnyeva 15–16.
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.Artamanov 146–147; Christian 299 at n.26 (citing Gumilev 159.) Thereafter he disappears from the historical record.Christian 299 at n. 26.
References
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- Artamonov, Mikhail. Istoriya Khazar. Leningrad, 1962.
- Christian, David. A History of Russia, Mongolia and Central Asia. Blackwell, 1999.
- Golden, Peter Benjamin. Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 1992.
- Gumilev, Lev. The Gokturks, 1st ed. Moscow: Nauka, 1967.
- Pletneva, Svetlana. Khazary, 2nd ed. Moscow: Nauka, 1986.
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