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| | Timur as army comander, |
 | | In 1318 Uzbeg Khan was lord of Desht Kapchak, and he introduced the religion of Mohammed into his dominions {The seventh in succession from Jojy. |
 | | On the death of Uzbeg Khan in 1342, his son, and afterwards his grandson, followed him, but in 1360 Urus Khan, descended from a younger son of Jojy, became sovereign of Kapchak. |
 | | Urus Khan led an army against Timur, and the hostile forces met on the plains beyond the River Jaxartes, but a terrible storm of snow and hail, accompanied by a hard frost, obliged Urus to retreat, and he died a few months afterwards. |
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