Ghazan
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Mahmud Ghazan was the seventh ruler of the Ilkhanate from 1295 to 1304, division of the Mongol Empire based in modern-day Iran. He was the son of Arghun, grandson of Abaqa Khan and great-grandson of H
Ghazan with wife at his court
Ghazan as a child, in the arms of his father Arghun, standing next to Arghun's father Abaqa, mounted on a horse
Ghazan mounted on a horse.
Seal of Mahmud Ghazan, over the last two lines of his 1302 letter to Pope Boniface VIII. The seal was given to Ghazan by the sixth Great Khan (Emperor ChengZong of Yuan). It is in Chinese script: "王府定國理民之寶", which means "Seal certifying the authority of his Royal Highness to establish a country and govern its people". Overwritten on it vertically, are two lines in Mongolian using the old, Aramaic-based, Uyghur script. Vatican Archives.
Kököchin
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Kököchin, also Kökejin, Kūkājīn, Cocacin or Cozotine, was a 13th-century princess of the Mongol-led Chinese Yuan dynasty, belonging to the Mongol Bayaut tribe. In 1291, she was betrothed to the Ilkhan
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…in 1295 when he took the throne, marking a turning point for the dominant religion of the Mongols in West Asia. One of his many principal wives was Kököchin, a Mongol princess (originally betrothed to Ghazan's father Arghun before his death) sent by his great-uncle Kublai Khan. Military conflicts during…
Chinese characters for Kököchin.