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The Yagmas (), or Yaghmas, were a medieval tribe of Turkic people that came to the forefront of history after the disintegration of the Western Turkic Kaganate. They were one component of a confederation which consisted of Yagma, the Karluks, the Chigils and other tribes which founded the Kara-Khanid Khanate. From the seventh century until the Karakhanid period, the Yagma were recorded in Arabic, Persian language, and China accounts as a prominent and powerful political entity in the Tarim Basin, Dzungaria, and Zhetysu.
According to the Persian work Mujmal al-Tawarikh wa-'l-Qisas, the Yağma "king" (called ''padšâh" in that source,meaning king,an obvious persian attempt to translate the Turkic title 'Khan') bore the title of Bogra Khan (Bughra/Bogra means Male Camel, it was common for Turks to use animal names as titles such as Toghan Khan, Arslan Khan, Bughra Khan, Böri Khan etc.). The Yagma title of Bogra Khan allowed Vasily Bartold to suggest that Karakhanid Karakhanids were from the Yagma tribe.
Mahmud al-Kashgari mentioned the Yagma and Tukhsi tribes, with a clan of Chigils, along the Ili River.1, 85 In the tenth century the Yagma tribe lived in the Kashgar area and further northwest. Al Gardezi, who used sources composed in the eighth century, wrote that the Yagma united numerous tribes between the Uyghur people and Karluks in the larger part of the eastern Tian Shan, including Kashgar City and District. Gardezi called the Yagma a "rich people with large herds of horses" in a country of "one month of travel". The Yagma constantly clashed with the Karluks and the Kimaks, and were a dependent of the Western Turkic Kagans until their demise.
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