Uzbeg
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Uzbegs,
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Uzbeg
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In 1313, Uzbeg made Islam the official religion of the Golden Horde, but he did not remove the yassa’s tax exemption for other religions.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
The bulk of the people of the cities are of Persian and Uzbeg stock, but interspersed with them are Mongol Hazaras and Hindus with Turkoman tribes in the Oxus plains.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Subhankuli died in 1702, and a war of succession broke out between his two sons, who were supported by the rivalry of two Uzbeg tribes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
For about a century it belonged to the Delhi empire, and then fell into Uzbeg hands.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
The conquest of Khiva, another Uzbeg State also founded on the ruins of Tamerlane's Central Asian Empire, was attempted by Peter the Great in 1717 and again in 1839 by the Tsar Nicholas.
From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton
The Uzbegs interpreted this as a symbolical demand: Peace or War?
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Henry Yule
But in 1514 he was utterly defeated by the Uzbegs and with difficulty reached Kabul.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
Genghis Khan took it from the Arabs in the Thirteenth Century, and it was taken by the Uzbegs, fanatical Sunni Mahommedans of Turkish extraction, in 1505.
From Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton
Uzbegs and Kirghiz have but small affinity with the Mongol element of Asia.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
Such, besides the already mentioned Turkomans of Parthian lineage, are all the nomad and many of the settled inhabitants of Khiva, Ferghana, Karategin, Bokhara, generally comprised under the name of Uzbegs and "Sartes."
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
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