Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Karluks (also Qarluqs Qarluks Karluqs Old Turkic: Qarluq Persian: خَلُّخ (Khallokh) Arabic قارلوق Qarluq) were a prominent nomadic Turkic tribal confederacy residing in the regions of Kara-Irtysh (Black Irtysh) and the Tarbagatai Mountains west of the Altay Mountains in Central Asia. They were also known as the Gelolu (simplified Chinese: 葛逻禄; traditional Chinese: 葛邏祿; pinyin: Géluólù customary phonetic: Gelu Khololo Khorlo or Harluut).
