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Bagha Shad ( Error: {{Langx}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 3) (help), simplified Chinese: 莫贺设; traditional Chinese: 莫賀設; pinyin: mòhè shè; Wade–Giles: mo-ho she) was a Göktürk shad or general of the early 7th century CE. He was a close kinsman and subject of the Western Göktürk khagan, Tong Yabghu. Bagha Shad was probably the father of Böri Shad and may have been the yabghu or prince of the Khazars.

He is referred to in Chinese sources as having sojourned in China in 618–626, possibly as Tong Yabghu's emissary to the Tang emperor. Thereafter he disappears from the historical record.

References

1. Christian 283
2. Artamanov 128; Pletnyeva 15–16.
3. Artamanov 146–147; Christian 299 at n.26 (citing Gumilev 159.)
4. Christian 299 at n. 26.

• Artamonov, Mikhail. Istoriya Khazar. Leningrad, 1962.
• Christian, David. A History of Russia, Mongolia and Central Asia. Blackwell, 1999.
• Golden, Peter Benjamin. Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz, 1992.
• Gumilev, Lev. The Gokturks, 1st ed. Moscow: Nauka, 1967.
• Pletneva, Svetlana. Khazary, 2nd ed. Moscow: Nauka, 1986.

• Göktürk people
• 7th-century Asian people
• Ashina house of the Turkic Empire