Barga Mongols

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The Barga (Barga Mongolian: ), or Bargu (simplified Chinese: 巴尔虎部; traditional Chinese: 巴爾虎部; pinyin: Bā'ěrhǔ Bù), Bargut, are Mongols who speak a Buriat-type dialect. Under the Qing Dynasty they resettled in Inner Mongolia.

In 12-13th centuries, they appear as a tribe in Siberia. Genghis Khan's ancestor Alangua the Beauty was of Barga ancestry. In the Mongol Empire, they served the Great Khans' armies.

After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty in 1368, the Barga joined the Oirats against the Genghisids. However, they were scattered among the Mongols and Oirats. Barga share the same 11 clans into which the Khori Buriats were divided. The main body of Khori-Barga moved to the area between Argun River and the Greater Khingan Range where they became subject to the Daurs and Solon Ewenkis. A large body of Barga Khoris fled back east to the Onon in 1594. While some came under Russian protection, others became tributary to the Khalkha.

When the Qing Dynasty attacked the Cossacks in the Argun and Shilka Rivers in 1685-89, those Barga in east of the Argun River were deported to Manchuria. The Qing court dispersed them among the Chahar banners.

In 1734, the Barga who had been left under the Khalkha noyans complained the mistreatment of their lords and the Qing authority selected 2,400 Bargas in Khalkha and stationed them with their families in Hulun Buir.

The Barga joined Pan-Mongolist movements and small groups of them fled to Mongolia.