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| | Chagatai Khanate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Chagatai Khan (alternative spellings Chagata, Chugta, Chagta, Djagatai, Jagatai), a son of Genghis Khan(1206—1227), controlled the part of the Mongol Empire which extended from the Ili river (eastern Kazakhstan) and Kashgaria (western Tarim Basin) to Transoxiana. |
 | | The third son, Ogodei, the designated Great Khan, inherited the lands east of Lake Balkash as far as Mongolia. |
 | | Chagataite dominion over Transoxiana was broken by Timur i Leng, or Tamerlane (1365), but after Timur's death (1405) his empire went to pieces. |
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