Alat tribe

Alat (a.k.a. Ala-at, Ala, Alachin, Alagchin, Alchin, Alchi, Alayontli, Ulayundluğ (اُوﻻيُنْدْلُغْ) ("piebald horse", pinto); Boma 駁馬 or 駮馬 "piebald horse", Helai 賀賴, Helan 賀蘭, Hela 曷剌, Bila 弊剌;^[a] dru-gu ha-la-yun-log^[3] "Ha la yun log Turks"^[4]) were one salient Turkic tribe known from Chinese annals.

Alats were possibly identical to Luandi^[5] or Xueyantuo;^[6] or Khalajes,^[7]^[8] a Central Asian people known to medieval Arab and Persian Muslim geographers and in Bactrian inscriptions,^[9]

Literature on Alats is very rich; Alats were a subject of study by Tangshu, Jiu Tangshu, Tang Huiyao, N.Ya. Bichurin, S.E. Malov, N.A. Aristov, Grigory Grum-Grshimailo, Yu. Nemeth, G. Hоworth, P. Pelliot, L. Hambis, and others.

^ Golden, Peter B. An Introduction to the History of Turkic Peoples. (1992) p. 142
^ Tongdian vol. 200: "拔悉彌一名弊剌國,隋時聞焉" tr. "Basmyls, another name is Bila state, known in Sui time then."
^ Moriyasu, Takao (1977) "A propos des tribus de l'Asie Centrale qui se trouvent dans les sources tibétaines: DRU-GU et HOR" in Journal of Asian and African Studies No. 14. p. 8. (in French and Japanese)
^ Venturi, Federica (2008). "An Old Tibetan document on the Uighurs: A new translation and interpretation". Journal of Asian History. 1 (42): p. 31 of pp. 1-35
^ Wei, Lanhai; Li, Hui. "About the names of Chanyu family and branch tribes of Xiongnu".
^ Wen-sheng, Bao (2010). "Name and Origin of Xueyantuo Tribe". Journal of Inner Mongolia University. S2CID 163563213.
^ Moriyasu, T (1977). "À propos des tribus de l'Asie Centrale qui se trouve dans les sources tibétaines: DRU-GU et HOR". Journal of Asian and African Study (14): 28–30.
^ Inaba, Minoru. "The Identity of the Turkish Rulers to the South of Hindukush from the 7th to the 9th Centuries A.D.". Zinbun (38): 1–16.
^ Sims-Williams (2005). Some Bactrian Seal-Inscriptions // Afghanistan, ancien carrefour entre l’est et l’ouest, ed. O. Bopearachchi and M.-F. Boussac, pp. 335–46

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[1] Golden, Peter B. An Introduction to the History of Turkic Peoples. (1992) p. 142

[2] Tongdian vol. 200: "拔悉彌一名弊剌國,隋時聞焉" tr. "Basmyls, another name is Bila state, known in Sui time then."

[4] Moriyasu, Takao (1977) "A propos des tribus de l'Asie Centrale qui se trouvent dans les sources tibétaines: DRU-GU et HOR" in Journal of Asian and African Studies No. 14. p. 8. (in French and Japanese)

[5] Venturi, Federica (2008). "An Old Tibetan document on the Uighurs: A new translation and interpretation". Journal of Asian History. 1 (42): p. 31 of pp. 1-35

[6] Wei, Lanhai; Li, Hui. "About the names of Chanyu family and branch tribes of Xiongnu".

[7] Wen-sheng, Bao (2010). "Name and Origin of Xueyantuo Tribe". Journal of Inner Mongolia University. S2CID 163563213.

[Moriyasu_1977_28–30-8] Moriyasu, T (1977). "À propos des tribus de l'Asie Centrale qui se trouve dans les sources tibétaines: DRU-GU et HOR". Journal of Asian and African Study (14): 28–30.

[Inaba_1–16-9] Inaba, Minoru. "The Identity of the Turkish Rulers to the South of Hindukush from the 7th to the 9th Centuries A.D.". Zinbun (38): 1–16.

[10] Sims-Williams (2005). Some Bactrian Seal-Inscriptions // Afghanistan, ancien carrefour entre l’est et l’ouest, ed. O. Bopearachchi and M.-F. Boussac, pp. 335–46

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