Chagatai Khanate
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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
The Chagatay Khan and His Consort, Jāmiʿ al-tavārīkh of Rashid al-Din, Iran, late 14th century.
Coinage of the Chaghatai Khans at the time of Qaidu. Samarqand mint. Dated AH 685 (AD 1285).
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).
Mainland East Asia in 1616
The Turpan Khanate and Yarkent Khanate in 1490
"Moghol embassy", seen by the Dutch visitors in 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.
'Ali-Sultan (r.1339-1342), in The Martyrdom of the Franciscans (1342).