 The 11th century scholar Mahmud al-Kashgari (also known as Barskhani) was a native of this area.His father Husayn was mayor of the village.Mahmud al-Kashgari is best known as the author of the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk, the first comparative dictionary of the Turkic languages, which he wrote whilst living in Baghdad in 1072-4.