Chagatai Khanate | medieval state, Asia | Britannica (original) (raw)
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ʿAlāʾ-ud-Dīn Khaljī
In India: Taxation and distribution of revenue resources …their occupation of Afghanistan, the Chagatai Mongols began to penetrate well beyond the Punjab, necessitating a comprehensive defense program for the sultanate, including the capital, Delhi, which underwent a two-month siege in 1303. Besides fortifying the capital and supplying the frontier towns and forts with able commanders, marshaling a large… Read More
Eurasian Steppe
In the Steppe: Fragmentation of the empire …of the empire where the Chagatai khans reigned until 1324. Yet this was the poorest of the four khanates into which Genghis Khan’s empire had been partitioned and could not possibly dominate the rest. Read More
Islamic world
In Islamic world: First Mongol incursions …Tigris-Euphrates valley and Iran; the Chagatai dominated the Syr Darya and Oxus basins, the Kābul mountains, and eventually the Punjab; and the Golden Horde was concentrated in the Volga basin. The Il-Khans ruled in the territories where Islam was most firmly established. They patronized learning of all types and scholars… Read More
In Islamic world: Foundation by Bābur …Shaybānī Khān, Bābur and his Chagatai followers did hold Samarkand, as Ṣafavid vassals, but, when the Ṣafavids were in turn defeated, Bābur lost not only Samarkand but his native Fergana as well. He was forced to retreat to Kabul, which he had occupied in 1504. From there he never restored… Read More
Mongol conquests
In history of Central Asia: Mongol rule …Asian heartland the descendants of Chagatai and Ögödei, sons of Genghis, maintained traditional steppe polities geared to the interests of their nomad followers and increasingly opposed to the policies of the great khan in China and his ally, the il-khan, in Iran. After Möngke’s death in 1259 there was a… Read More
In Mongolia: The successor states of the Mongol empire …khanates of the house of Chagatai and the Il-Khans of Iran (Persia). Like the rulers of the Golden Horde, the rulers of the house of Chagatai considered themselves senior, in genealogy, to the house of Ögödei; they were frequently at odds with the great khan, with each other, and with… Read More
