"Aimaq", meaning "tribe" in Turkic-Mongolic ("Oymaq"), is not an ethnic denomination, but differentiates semi-nomadic herders and agricultural tribal groups of various ethnic origins including the Tajik, Hazara and Baluch, that were formed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.They live among non-tribal people in the western areas of Badghis, Ghor and Herat provinces.