Qizilbash

The Qizilbash were a collection of Persianized Oghuz Turks who arrived in Iran in the mid-12th century, before being enslaved by the Persians, and finally rebelling against them, and establishing the Qermizid Dynasty of Persia, and waging war against the Fatimids and Indian states, with several Turkic explorers founding dynasties and states of their own in India and Mesopotamia. The Qizilbash eventually were overthrown, and their descendants driven out of much of Iran (where the few descendants became the Qajari people, who would eventually establish another dynasty later), and completely driven out of Mesopotamia. The Qizilbash of India would later be absorbed into the invading Uyghurs when they established rule over India.