Bayburdlu (Persian: بایبوردلو), or Bayburtlu (بایبورتلو), is a Turkoman tribe inhabiting the region of Arasbaran in northwestern Iran.
[1] According to historian Hoseyn Baybordi, bay means big, while burd denotes "head",[2] and the tribe may be unrelated to the city of Bayburt.
During the reigns of the Ottoman Sultans Bayezid II (r. 1481–1512) and Selim I r. 1512–20), the nahiyah of Bayburd, the tribe's namesake, was part of the kaza of Turghud and comprised the lands south of Ereğli and east of Karaman.
[5] Qara Khan, the son of Qaraja Ilyas, was the Safavid governor of Erivan[6] and Shuragil at the time of Tahmasp I's death (r. 1524–76) and was notable for his victory over the Ottoman forces of Erzurum in 1577/8.
[7] During the reigns of Mohammad Khodabanda (r. 1578–1587) and Abbas the Great (r. 1587–1629),[8] Shahverdi Beg Bayburdlu was the yasāvol-e ṣoḥbat,[9] and is known to have left much wealth for his descendants when he died in 1614.