Buri-shad ("Wolf Prince") was a title of an appointed head of province-type principality in the most-western N. Caucasus periphery of the Western Turkic Kaganate. Within the lateral succession order of the kaganate, members of the ruling clan were successively given possessions in accordance with their rank in respect to the ruling Kagan. Accordingly, a succession of princes, or shads, occupied that position. The principality of Buri-shad originated in 558 CE, when Kara-Churin, a brother of the… (More on Buri-sad)