khan
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In the nineteenth century, the Caucasus and Central Asia were places of untrammeled brigandage and intermittent rebellion, marked by the rule of unpredictable kings and khans .
a title given to rulers and officials in central Asia, Afghanistan, and certain other Muslim countries.
However, I have since found two eighteenth-century accounts of traveling between Aleppo and Damascus by English travelers, who both report staying at a khan in Qutaifah.
(in the Middle East) an inn for travelers, built around a central courtyard.
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Timur's trajectory began with a three-year struggle to achieve dominance, at the end of which in 1370 he proclaimed himself not merely emir of Samarkand but 'khan' of the Chagatai and inheritor of Genghis's Mongol empire.
In Qutaifah we were told by several local people that there was no 'khan' in their town, only the Khan al-Arus some kilometers away.
The spiritual leader of Mongolia's Lamaists was proclaimed 'khan' of Mongolia on 16 December, and the country's religious center, Urga, became the capital.
In 864, Boris I together with his entire court and many other Bulgarians accepted Christianity and changed his pagan title 'khan' to kniaz (prince).
There, a Genoese colony was under siege from a 'khan' of the Golden Horde named Yannibeg, when his army was decimated by an outbreak of plague.
A mission from Pope Innocent IV in 1246 to the Mongol great 'khan' was politely received but the message back invited the pope to submit.
The ruler of the state, the 'khan' , was in charge of foreign political affairs and was commander of the army in times of war.
However, I have since found two eighteenth-century accounts of traveling between Aleppo and Damascus by English travelers, who both report staying at a 'khan' in Qutaifah.
Each of the domes represents a battle in Ivan's triumphant war against the rebellious 'khan' of Kazan.
She complained about the poor planning of the town to the 'khan' , and suggested that Jilan-Tau would be a better place for the city, because it was close to a river.
Furthermore, the 'khan' was awarded the title of Caesar, making him second only to the emperor.
In 1873 the Russians established their control over Khiva, the last of the major independent 'khanates' of Central Asia.
An ample reference section at the end of the book contains lists of rulers including emperors, ecclesiastics, caliphs, 'khans' , and kings of Serbia.
The title was also used of Tatar 'khans' , Biblical kings, and of various rulers in folk genres.
All three 'khanates' fell to the Russians between 1865 and 1873.
The three 'khans' were subject to the Khakhan (the Great Khan), but were generally resentful in their relations with him.
They look aged beyond their years by the fierce sun, and make do with what they have, their destinies once determined by feudal 'khans' , then Soviet masters and now an unsure independence.
Built in 1792 as a summer retreat, it's a charming legacy of the days when Azerbaijan was a chaotic jumble of rival 'khanates' and principalities.
Finally the Russians split Azerbaijan's territory with Persia in 1828 by the Treaty of Turkmenchay, establishing the present frontiers and extinguishing the last native dynasties of local Azerbaijani 'khans' .
He walked his audience through a litany of invaders: Mongol 'khans' , Turkish beys, Swedish feudal lords, Polish and Lithuanian gentry, British and French capitalists, Japanese barons.
Their princes, or 'khans' , made capital and court at Karabalghasun on the River Orkhon in present-day Mongolia.
The struggle between Russia and Great Britain in the late nineteenth century saw major Central Asian 'khanates' , such as Bukhara, Samarkand, and Tashkent, fall under Russian influence.
In the next century an Englishman employed by the Tsar visited Central Asia, and this was followed by the dispatch of emissaries to the various 'khanates' of the region.
The rulers of Moscow rose to pre-eminence among the scattered principalities as agents of the Mongol 'khans' , who employed them to maintain order in their Russian realm and collect the tribute.
For the first time in Bulgaria, archaeologists have excavated a grave of a Proto-Bulgarian aristocrat from the age of the 'khans' .
From rival tribes, the Tibetans were united in the sixth century; they were led by strong tribal leaders until the thirteenth century, when Mongol 'khans' created a theocracy under their Buddhist spiritual advisors.
In the nineteenth century, the Caucasus and Central Asia were places of untrammeled brigandage and intermittent rebellion, marked by the rule of unpredictable kings and 'khans' .
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