Töregene Khatun (d. 1246) was the Great Khatun and regent of the Mongol Empire from her husband Gedei Khan's death in 1241 until the election of her eldest son Güyük Khan in 1246 ...

Ögedei Khan (c. 1186 – December 11 1241) was Genghis Khan's third son and the Mongol Empire's second khagan-emperor, succeeding his father. He maintained his father's Empire& ...

Genghis Khan and Börte had a son named Chagatai Khan. Following his father's death, he inherited the majority of what are now five Central Asian states. Genghis Khan also appointed him to ...

Jochi was a Mongol army leader and the eldest son of Genghis Khan. He was Genghis Khan's four sons by his main wife Börte, though paternity questions dogged him throughout his life. He was ...

Tolui was Genghis Khan's fourth son from his chief Khatun Börte. At his father's death in 1227, his ulus, or geographical inheritance, was Mongolia's homeland. He also served as ci ...

The Ilkhanate, also written Il-khanate and referred to the Mongols as Hülegü Ulus, was a khanate from the Mongol Empire's southwestern province. The Mongol House of Hulagu governed th ...

The Golden Horde was a Mongol and eventually Turkicized khanate founded in the 13th century and originating as the Mongol Empire's northwestern division. It became a functionally distinct khana ...

The Khwarazmian or Khwarezmian Kingdom was a Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim territory that governed large parts of modern-day Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran between 1077 and 1231, first as vassals ...

From 1413 to 1421, Mehmed I, also known as Mehmed Çelebi or Kirişçi, was the Ottoman Sultan. During the Ottoman Interregnum, he fought with his brothers for leadership of the Ottoman ...

From 1389 until 1402 Bayezid I commonly known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt was the Ottoman Sultan. Gülçiçek Hatun and Murad I were his parents. He amassed one of the world's gr ...