Baghatur

Baghatur (Mongolian: ᠪᠠᠭᠠᠲᠦᠷ Baghatur/Ba'atur (Khalkha Mongolian: Баатар), Turkish: Batur/Bahadır, Russian: Boghatir) is a historical Turco-Mongol honorific title, in origin a term for "hero" or "valiant warrior". The Papal envoy Plano Carpini compares the title with the equivalent of European Knighthood.

The term was first used by the steppe peoples to the north and west (Mongolia) of China as early as the 7th century as evidenced in Sui dynasty records. It is attested for the Köktürk khanate in the 8th century, and among the Bulgars of the First Bulgarian Empire in the 9th century.

The word was common among the Mongols and became especially widespread, as an honorific title, in Genghis Khan's Mongol Empire in the 13th century; the title persisted in its successor-states, and later came to be adopted also as a regnal title in the ilkhanate, in Timurid dynasties etc.

The word was also introduced in to many non-Turkic languages as a result of the Turco-Mongol conquests, and now exists in different forms such as the Bulgarian language "Багатур (Bagatur)", Russian Богатырь (Bogatyr), Polish Bohater (meaning "hero"), Persian and North Indian Bahadur, and Georgian Bagatur.

It is also preserved in the modern Turkic and Mongol languages as Turkish Batur/Bahadır, Tatar and Kazakh Батыр (Batyr), Uzbek Batyr and Mongolian Baatar (as in Ulaanbaatar).