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Batu Khan

American  
[bah-too kahn] / ˈbɑ tu ˈkɑn /

noun

  1. died 1255, Mongol conqueror: leader of the Golden Horde (grandson of Genghis Khan).


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They rode under the leadership of Batu Khan, Genghis’s grandson.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2012

Whereupon they threw back their snow-white veils, which were of wool like their other wraps, and Batu Khan looked at them in dead silence.

From 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar The Scourge of God by J?sika, Mikl?s

Your Majesty, we are both Russian dukes, and have been driven from the broad lands of our ancestors, by Batu Khan, one of Oktai's chiefs.

From 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar The Scourge of God by J?sika, Mikl?s

Botoshani owes its name to a Tatar chief, Batus or Batu Khan, grandson of Jenghiz Khan, who occupied the country in the 13th century.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various

I fancy the Tartars under Batu Khan must have played many pranks in what is to-day Austrian Silesia, when looting the country after the battle of Liegnitz.

From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

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