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Batu Khan

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[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

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

Batu Khan, Mongol ruler of the Western conquests of his grandfather, Genghis Khan, from 1224 to 1255.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various

Batu Khan presented one of Libor's horses—a lame one—to Bajdár; and the rest of the ex-favourite's very considerable property he kept for himself.

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