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4 unusual facts about Chagatai


Chagatai Turks

The Chagatai Turks are people who descended from the Chagatai Khanate or with the ethnic name of Chagatai.

Singahi Bhiraura

It was this small band of Chagatai mongols and Pasi soldiers who together with their women and children that formed the nucleus of the villages of Singahi and Nighasan.

The small contingent sent to repel the war party, consisted of Chagatai Mongol Nomad soldiers from Transoxiania,( Mawarannahr) who had newly arrived in India and were under the command of their Sardar, Naig Hassan.

The town was founded in 1586 (See History Section) out of unoccupied forest clearing by Chagatai Muslims and the Pasi tribal caste, who cleared the forests and brought the area under cultivation.


Buyan Suldus

When the Qara'unas Amir Qazaghan killed Qazan Khan and took effective control of the Chagatai Khanate in 1346, his base of power was in the southern portion of the ulus; he mostly left the northern tribes alone.

Chagatai language

The most famous of the Chagatai poets is Mir Ali-Shir Nava'i, who among his other works wrote Muhakamat al-Lughatayn, a detailed comparison of the Chagatai and Persian languages, in which he argued for the superiority of the former.

Chagatai people

The Chagatai live in the Surxondaryo Province in south-east Uzbekistan and in southern Tajikistan.

Duwa Temür

During his reign, Great Khan Tugh Temur (1328 - 1329 and 1329 - 1332) took a third of revenues from Khiva and Khot in the Chagatai Khanate.

Mokshas

As recorded by Rashid-al-Din in his Jami al-Tawarikh, 4 September 1236 was the date on which the sons of Jochi - Batu, Orda, and Berke, Ugedei’s son Kadan, Chagatai’s grandson Büri, and Jenghiz Khan’s son Kulkan declared war on the Mokshas, Burtas and Erzyas.

Nikpai

Negübei, the khan of the Chagatai Mongols from 1270-1272 AD

Qamar-ud-din Khan Dughlat

According to the Tarikh-i Rashidi, Khudaidad had been an early supporter of Khizr Khoja and had hid him from Qamar-ud-din during the latter's purge of members of the house of Chagatai.

Qazan Khan

Qazan Khan ibn Yasaur (died 1346), ruler of the Chagatai Khanate in 1343–1346

Tughlugh Timur

Meanwhile, in Transoxiana the Qara'unas lost their status as de facto leaders of the Chagatai ulus; they were replaced by Buyan Suldus, an easygoing and ineffective amir.

Tuka

Buqa Temür (alternately Tuka Timur), khan of the Chagatai Khanate (1272?-1282)

Ⱪona Yeziⱪ

Chagatai script, variant of Arabic script used for Chagatai, and formerly Uyghur, languages


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