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
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]
