The Successors of Genghis Khan - Robert Bedrosian's Armenian ...

BEGINNING OF THE HISTORY OF OGETEI QA'AN
In the Maghrib .3IS
In Fars there reigned Abu Bakr ibn Sa'd, and during this period
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In Sistan -
History of certain princes in the Qipchaq Steppe
and the emirs of Khurasan and other provinces
History of the princes in the Qipchaq Steppe*1* In the autumn of the
qulquna319y'il, that is, the Year of the Rat, corresponding to the months
of the year 637/I239-I24O,320 when Guyiik Khan and Mongke Qa'an
had, in accordance with the yarligh of Qa'an, returned from the Qipchaq
Steppe, the princes Batu and his brothers [together] with Qadan,
Biiri, and Bochek took the field against the land of the Orus and the
people of the Blackcaps,321 and in 9 days [they] captured the great
town of the Orus called Men-Kermen.322 Then they proceeded in a
hunting ring, tiimen by tiimen, against all the towns of Uledemiir,323
seizing the castles and lands that lay across their path. Together they
laid siege to the town of Uch-Oghul-Uledemur324 and took it in 3 days
In the hukeryU32S Qa'an died, and in the middle of the spring month
they crossed the *Qazaq-Taq326 mountains in the direction of the
Bular and the Bashghird.327
315 Blank in the MSS.
316 The second part of the phrase is not in Verkhovsky.
317 Not in Verkhovsky.
318 For an earlier translation of this chapter, see Minorsky 1952, pp. 227—28.
319 Mo. qulughan-a, "rat." 32° Actually 1240.
321 The name given by the Russians to the Turks whom they established as frontier
guards on the Middle Dnieper. See Minorsky 1952, p. 230.
322 The Turkish name of Kiev. See Minorsky 1952, p. 230.
323 That is, Vladimir, apparently as the name of a person. See above, p. 59, note
240.
324 Vladimir Volynsky. In Turkish, iich oghul means "three sons (children),"
and Minorsky (1952, p. 230), sees in this epithet a reference to the two sons (Daniel
and Vasilko) and daughter (Salome) of Roman of Galicia.
"5 1241.
326 Following Pelliot's suggestion (Horde d'Or, p. 130, note 3), the Carpathians. See
also Minorsky 1952, p. 231.
327 See above, p. 56, note 222.
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