Chagatai Khanate - Successors of the Chagataites

Chagatai Khan (alternative spellings Chagata, Chugta, Chagta, Djagatai, Jagatai), a son of Genghis Khan (1206—1227), controlled the part of the Mongol Empire which extended from the Ili river (eastern Kazakhstan) and Kashgaria (western Tarim Basin) to Transoxiana. He inherited most of what are now the five Central Asian states and northern Iran after the death of his father which he ruled until his death in 1242. The Empire later came to be known as the Chagatai Khanate, part of the Mongol Empire. These te ...

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Chagatai died shortly after Ögedei. The Chagataites, who had previously accepted Guyuk, consented to the succession to Möngke as Great Khan with some reluctance, but on the whole the Mongol Empire did not disgregate. Möngke died during his campaign against Song China. Kublai (Qubilai) succeeded him as Great Khan in 1260, but faced a succession crisis. His younger brother, Arigboka (Arigboqa), claimed the great khanate. Kublai brought him to heel with the help of A ...

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Genghis Khan's empire was inherited by his third son, Ögedei, the designated Great Khan who personally controlled the lands east of Lake Balkash as far as Mongolia. Tolui, the youngest, the keeper of the hearth, was accorded the northern Mongolian homeland. Chagatai, the second son received Kashgaria, with his capital at Almalyq (Kulja) in the modern Sinkiang area of western China, and Transoxania between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers in modern Uzbekistan. Apart from problems of lineage and inheritance, the Mongol Empire was endangered by the great cultural and ethnic divide between the ...

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Chagatai Khanate, Chagatai Khanate - Mongol successor states, Chagatai Khanate - The Chagatai Khanate after Chagatai, Chagatai Khanate - Tughlugh Timur and Tamerlane, Chagatai Khanate - Successors of the Chagataites

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Duwa tried to carry on where Kaidu left off, but he had to suppress a challenge by Kaidu's son, Chapar, and when he tried to make war on the Ilkhanids he was repulsed and killed. After the death of the khan Qazan in 1347, the Chagatai Khanate was divided into western (Transoxiana) and eastern (Moghulistan) halves. Power in the western half devolved into the hands of several tribal leaders, most notably the Qara'unas. Khans appointed by the tribal rulers were mere puppets. The eastern khan Tughlugh Timur (1347-1363), an obscure Chaghataite ad ...

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Chagatai Khanate, Chagatai Khanate - Mongol successor states, Chagatai Khanate - The Chagatai Khanate after Chagatai, Chagatai Khanate - Tughlugh Timur and Tamerlane, Chagatai Khanate - Successors of the Chagataites

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