Barlas

The Barlas were a Mongol tribe settled around Kish in Transoxiana. In the fourteenth century they were one of the four great powers of the Chagatai ulus.

Hajji Beg joined a revolt in 1359. His nephew Timur became master of Transoxiana in 1370 and founded an empire stretching from Syria to India. Driven from Samarkand, Timur’s descendant Babur conquered northern India and founded the Mughal Empire in 1526.