 Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire in the early 16th century, records the name "Hazara" in his autobiography.He referred to the populace of a region called "Hazaristan", located west of the Kabulistan region, east of Ghor, and north of Ghazni.The conventional theory is that the name "Hazara" derives from the Persian word for "thousand" ("hezār" هزار).