Chagatai Khanate

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The Chagatai Khanate (green), c. 1300

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Ancient period Tocharians Yuezhi Xiongnu Western Regions (Han Protectorate; Chief Officials) Kingdom of Khotan Former Liang Former Qin Later Liang Western Liang Gaochang Rouran First Turkic Khaganate Western Turkic Khaganate Eastern Turkic Khaganate Second Turkic Khaganate
Medieval and early modern period Tang Protectorates (West; Beiting) Tibetan Empire Uyghur Khaganate Kara-Khanid Khanate Kingdom of Qocho Qara Khitai Mongol Empire (Yuan; Chagatai Khanate) Moghulistan (Turpan; Yarkent) Ming ruled Kara Del Dzungar Khanate Kumul Khanate Yettishar Qing rule (Dzungar genocide Dungan Revolt Qing reconquest)
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Chagatai Khanate was a Turco-Mongol government that included the lands under the rule of Chagatai Khan, the second son of Genghis Khan.

Chagatai Khanate Media

• Chagatay Khan and His Consort, Jāmiʿ al-tavārīkh of Rashid al-Din, Iran, late 14th century.jpg

  The Chagatay Khan and His Consort, Jāmiʿ al-tavārīkh of Rashid al-Din, Iran, late 14th century.

• Chaghatayid Khans. temp. Qaidu. Circa AH 668-701 AD 1268-1301. Samarqand mint. Dated AH 685 (AD 1285).jpg

  Coinage of the Chaghatai Khans at the time of Qaidu. Samarqand mint. Dated AH 685 (AD 1285).

• Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Martirio di cinque frati francescani, 1336-37 circa, dalla sala capitolare (detail).jpg

  The Martyrdom of the Franciscans, painted in 1342 by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, took place in Almaliq, capital of the Chagatai Khanate, in 1339. The central ruler who ordered the killing was the Chagatai usurper 'Ali-Sultan (r.1339-1342).

• Eastern Chagatai 1372.jpg

  The map showing the Eastern Chagatai Khanate (Moghulistan) as of the year 1372 AD.

• Mahmud Khan on horse in 1502 near Tashkent. Baburnama of 1589.jpg

  Mahmud Khan (r.1487-1508) ruled from Tashkent over Western Moghulistan. Baburnama (1589)

• 1517 Yarkent and Turpan.png

  Yarkent and Turpan in 1517

• Nieuhof-p-189-Mogolsche-gezant-Lach-van-Kley-plate-315.jpg

  A "Moghol Embassy", as seen by the VOC embassy to Beijing in October 1656. The emissaries portrayed had probably come from Turpan, rather than all the way from the Moghul India. They wore dresses of blue silk, decorated with dragons.

• The Martyrdom of the Franciscans (1342) Ali Sultan.jpg

  'Ali-Sultan (r.1339-1342), in The Martyrdom of the Franciscans (1342).

• The Martyrdom of the Franciscans (1342) Mongol officer.jpg

  Mongol officer in The Martyrdom of the Franciscans (1342).

Related pages

• Chagatai Khan
• Turco-Mongol