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This unruly group also caused much damage as it travelled,
and extorted whatever it could from the sedentary
population . The establishment of the Il-Khanid state
in 1256 brought about yet another change, albeit one
somewhat more difficult to evaluate than the damage
occasioned by nomads on the move. In the pre-Il-Khanid
period, those Armenian naxarars heading tumans ia the
two Caucasian vilayets had had direct access to the
Great Khan of the Mongol empire in Qara-Qorum. Now, with
the establishment of the . Il-Khanate (itself a
vassal of the Great Khans) these same nobles .
became as it were sub-vassals whose direct access to
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supreme and ultimate power was lost . On the other hand
KG; "To this Khan [HUlegU] went the very greatest chiefs
from Batu's region: iul, Balala, Juthar, latalan, for
everyone honored HUlegU like a Khan. They obeyed him
and feargd him" (KG p. 377); KC: "During the same period
other khans sent their sons to these par,ts* Called koun.
they were: Batu's son Tur, Chaghatai-Khan's son Ulan,
iu^, and from the T'ul clan, BoTia, in order that the
khans' sons rule the lands they arrived in and also take
the taxes.. Ogedei-Khan's grandson HUlegU, brother of
Qubilai-Khan bad come forth and was here tin the Caucasus].
When HUlegti saw these three kouns he received them and
gave them the lands due, and thus did they remain in peace"
(KG pp. 223-24; Mur. p. 99).
CAKA pp. 367-68.
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