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1 day ago · After taking military support from Toqta, Bayan asked help from the Yuan dynasty and the Ilkhanate to organize a unified attack on the Chagatai Khanate under the leadership of Kaidu and his second-in-command Duwa. However, the Yuan court was unable to send quick military support.
2 days ago · In the Chagatai Khanate, Esen Buqa I (r. 1309–1318) was enthroned as khan after suppressing a sudden rebellion by Ögedei's descendants and driving Chapar into exile. The Yuan and Ilkhanid armies eventually attacked the Chagatai Khanate.
2 days ago · Tughlugh Timur of Kashgar, the Khan of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, another descendant of Genghis Khan, invaded, interrupting this infighting. Timur was sent to negotiate with the invader but joined with him instead and was rewarded with Transoxania.
3 days ago · The khanate collapsed after a Kyrgyz attack on its capital at Karabalghasun in 840, roughly 200 miles (320 km) west of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. After the fall of Karabalghasun, the Uyghurs who ruled the khanate migrated southwestward to the area around the Tien (Tian) Shan (“Celestial Mountains”) in the area of Xinjiang.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · Imitating a retreat, the heavy cavalry of the Mongols turned around abruptly and hit the stunned Cumans. They were instantly crushed and then fled, wreaking havoc on the units of the approaching ...
- Boris Egorov
1 day ago · This is wishful extrapolation from the small community of Saint Thomas Christians who’d lived in Kerala since the 8th century. Northwest of here are two more figures: King Stephen in green, supposedly representing the Christian minorities in India; 2 and, above him, in red, is the Khan Kebek, Mongol ruler of the Chagatai Khanate.
5 days ago · In the mid-14th century, the rulers of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate (1348-1509) spread Islam to the northern edge of the Tarim Basin, the Turpan Basin and Hami through war and duress.
