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

BEGINNING OF THE HISTORY OF OGETEI QA AN
of those countries, to the seacoast. When [Keler] embarked on a ship
in the town of - ,345 which lies on the coast, and put to sea,
Qadan turned back and after much fighting captured Qirqiin346
and Qiila347 in the town of the Ulaqut.348
The news of Qa'an's death had not yet reached them. Then in the
Year of the Leopard,349 a number of Qipchaq had come to fight with
Koten and Shingqur,3so the scm of Jochi.351 They gave battle and the
Qiipchaq were defeated. In the autumn they returned again and passed
into the region of Temur-Qahalqa352 and the mountains of those
parts. They gave an army to lla'udur353 and dispatched him against
them. He proceeded thither and defeated the Qipchaq, who had
fled to that region. They subjugated the Urungqut and Badach354
and brought [back] their envoys.
The whole of that year was passed in that region. In the beginning
of the taulai yil, that is, the Year of the Hare, corresponding to the
months of the year 640/1 242-1 243, 35S having completed the task of
conquering that country, they turned back. Traveling throughout the
summer and winter, they reached their ulus356 in the moghayil, that is,
the Year of the Snake, corresponding to the months of the year
3« Verkhovsky's text has TLNKYN, Blochet's MLYKYN. Minorsky (1952,
p. 231) sees in the latter form a probable corruption of an original SPLYT, that is,
Split. On the other hand, TLNKYN could be a corruption of TRWKYR, that is,
Trogir, the Serbian name of Trav, where Bela did in fact embark his family in March,
1242. See Strakosch-Grassmann, p. 168.
346 QRQYN.
3« QYYLH (Blochet), QYLH ( Verkhovsky) . Minorsky (1952, p. 231) regards these
as the names of Turks captured in the town (chief town ?) of the Vlachs.
348 That is, the Vlachs. See above, p. 70, note 333.
350 Minorsky (1952, p. 231) suggests that the text is out of order here and should
be emended to read: "... a number of Koten's Qipchaq had come to fight with
Shinqur . . . ." Koten, if this is the same person, was a Qipchaq prince who had
taken refuge in Hungary, where he had been lynched by the mob at the time of the
Mongol invasion. His followers had then crossed the Danube into Bulgaria and may
well have made their way into the Caucasus area. See Strakosch-Grassmann, pp.
72-75-
351 Shingqur was Jochi's ninth son. See below, p. 114.
352 Darband. See above, p. 6 1 , note 260.
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354 Neither name can be identified. These were presumably Qipchaq tribes.
355 Actually 1243. 356 See Glossary.
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