Qara bodun (
lit.'black commoners',[1]Old Turkic: đ°Žđ°șđ°:đ°đ°đ°đ°Ł, romanized: qara bodun) was a name given to the
common people of Turkic
khaganates. The term bodun means "people". The term bodun appears after the name of the tribal confederation, but it appears also in the expression of begler bodun meaning "the nobles and the common people".[2] The term qara was used to designate a lower or subject social class. In the 8th century, GöktĂŒrk and Uyghur inscriptions, the common folk, those who were not the
begler were designated as qara bodun.[3]
^Joanna Bialek (2018). "A Corpus Based Approach". Compounds and Compounding in Old Tibetan. Vol. 1. p. 446.
^Istvan Zimonyi (2015). Muslim Sources on the Magyars in the Second Half of the 9th Century: The Magyar Chapter of the JayhÄnÄ« Tradition. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450. p. 132.
^Peter B. Golden (2003). Nomads and Their Neighbours in the Russian Steppe: Turks, Khazars and Qipchaqs. p. 106.
1These are traditional areas of settlement; the Turkic group has been living in the listed country/region for centuries and should not be confused with modern diasporas. 2State with limited international recognition.