Özbeg Khan
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Özbeg or Uzbeg Khan, also known as Giyas ad-Din Muhammad Uzbek Khan, was Khan of the Golden Horde from 1313 to 1341. He was the longest-reigning khan, under whose rule the state reached its zenith. He
Mosque of Öz Beg Khan built in Crimea in 1314
Cap of Monomakh of Turkic origin to Ivan Qalita
Paiza of Öz Beg Khan
Mikhail of Tver before Uzbeg Khan, by Vasili Vereshchagin
Toqta
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Tokhta was Khan of the Golden Horde from 1291 to 1312. He was a son of Mengu-Timur and a great-grandson of Batu Khan.
Özbeg Khan
…was born in 1282. His father Togrilcha was one of the Genghisid princes that overthrew Tode-Mengu (r. 1280–1287). Later, he was executed by his brother Toqta (r. 1291–1312). Toqta took Togrilcha's widow for wife and sent his son Öz Beg to exile in a distant region of the Golden Horde: either Khorazm or the…
A 14th century French illustration of Tokhta and his cousins, Temür, Chabar and Oljaitu.
The battle between the armies of Tokhta and Nogai in the year 698 (1298-99 CE) on the River Don, in which the former was defeated. Jami al-Tawarikh, late 14th century (Asiatic Society, D.31, Folio 44 recto)