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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

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 Henryk Sienkiewicz

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 Mikl?s J?sika

Dora shuddered but did not speak, and Talabor went on to tell her, what we already know, of the invasion, and of the successes already gained by Batu Khan.

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

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 Mikl?s J?sika

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