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The Chagatai Khanate in Central Asia: Unity, Fragmentation, and Legacy (1225–1680s)

The Chagatai Khanate in Central Asia: Unity, Fragmentation, and Legacy (1225–1680s)

  1. Chagatai receives Central Asian ulus

    Labels: Chagatai Khan, Central Asia, Transoxiana

  2. Death of Chagatai Khan

    Labels: Chagatai Khan, Succession

  3. Baraq breaks with Great Khan’s authority

    Labels: Baraq, Chagatai Khanate

  4. Kaidu–Kublai war begins

    Labels: Kaidu, Kublai Khan

  5. Baraq defeated near Herat

    Labels: Baraq, Herat

  6. Duwa’s reign consolidates Chagatai power

    Labels: Duwa, Chagatai Khanate

  7. Kaidu dies; Yuan-Western khanates détente

    Labels: Kaidu, Yuan dynasty

  8. Esen Buqa–Ayurbarwada war erupts

    Labels: Esen Buqa, Ayurbarwada

  9. Kebek promotes coinage and Qarshi as center

    Labels: Kebek, Qarshi

  10. Tarmashirin’s Islamic turn and overthrow

    Labels: Tarmashirin, Islam

  11. Tughlugh Timur enthroned in Moghulistan

    Labels: Tughlugh Timur, Moghulistan

  12. Amir Qazaghan ends effective unity in Transoxiana

    Labels: Amir Qazaghan, Transoxiana

  13. Tughlugh Timur reunifies and then loses Transoxiana

    Labels: Tughlugh Timur, Transoxiana

  15. Moghulistan fragments into successor polities

    Labels: Moghulistan, Yarkent Khanate

  16. Sultan Said Khan founds the Yarkent Khanate

    Labels: Sultan Said, Yarkent Khanate

  17. Dzungar conquest ends Yarkent independence

    Labels: Dzungar Khanate, Yarkent Khanate