Bayat Tribe

(Azerbaijani: Bayat tayfası, Turkish: Bayat boyu)

Bayats is one of the Oghuz tribes in Turkmenistan, Iran, Turkey,Azerbaijan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.[1] When Oghuz Turks started to migrate from the Aral steppes to Khorasan in the 11th and 13th centuries, Bayat people spread throughout the region.



They belong to the Bozoks of Oghuzes, Günhan sons(or taipa).

There are different views about meaning of their name,but generally accepted as “rich” and “powerful” despite current Turkish meaning of Bayat.

Fuzuli and Dede Korkut (Korkut Ata,Korkyt Ata) belongs to the Bayats.

Oymaks

Şambayadı

İsmail-li

İlbeyli(Elbeyli)

Bahşi

Onar(Anar)

Çakalbayadı

Pehlivanlı

Kuzugüdenli

Sarıcalar

Barak

Beyzeki (Bezek-Beyzeki- Şeyh Bezenli, Baziki-Şıhbızınlı,Beyzavi-Beygazi)

Okçu(Okciyanlı)

İzzettinli

Salarlı

Solak

Ceriganlı

Ahçı Kozi

Kozan

Şarkıyan

MestanBey (Mutsan Mutsak)

Karsan(Kars)

Sevindik

Evci

Bayan

Kotan-kal

Kazak

Kanglı(kadlı Kadılı Kanlı Kangı).

Karagöz

Eldelek

Kaçar-Macar-Mercan

Koca-oğlu

Ağcalı (Akçalı)

Akçakoyunlu

Hışır

Yerköylü

Harun (Yapaltınlı)

Karacakurt

Yağmur

Türgiş (Dürkeş Türkeş Dirkeş Dirşek Tirkeş Dirkeş Tirkeşkaya Dirkeşkaya Türkeşan)

Kara-bıyık

Terkan (Tarkan Türkan Tırkanlı Terkian Tirken Terkişan Türkeşan)

Erayhan

Türkanlı (Tırkanlı)

Karlıklılar

Akbaşoğlu

Hacılar

Kıran

Karmış



Nowadays, Bayats present in

Anatolia

Bayat towns of Afyonkarahisar and Çorum provinces, Şambayad towns in many other cities, and a sizeable populiton lives in Ereğli town in Konya. Akkışla town in Kayseri.Kozaklı in Nevşehir. Sivas, Kilis, Gaziantep, Halep.

Syria

There is Bayat villages present around Raqqa.

Iraq

Most of the İraqi Turkmens belong to the Bayats, concentrated around Kirkuk.

Afghanistan

Bayats are still present in Afghanistan in Mazar-i-Sharif.

İran

There is place names in İran such as Bayat, Bayatan, Bayatlu, Bayatlar and many Bayats lives in these settlements.

Azerbaijan

Most of the Bayats in Azerbaijan lives in Ağcabedi, Deveçi, Neftçala, Şamahı and Ucar raions.

Turkmenstan

Bayat villages are spread throught Amu Darya river in Turkmenstan.