But upon the death of Tchoutchei, the Kalmucks again came under the Russian laws and tribunals; they lost all their privileges irrevocably, and the sovereignty of the khans and of the vice-khans disappeared for ever.
Having been for a long series of ages subject to the khans of the Crimea, all these Greeks speak a corrupt Tatar dialect among themselves.
During the brilliant period in which the khans reigned in the Crimea, the seat of government alternated between Eski Krim and Tchoufout Kaleh, until the beginning of the sixteenth century, when Bagtche Serai was made the capital.
After seeing the palace we repaired to the mosque and to the cemetery in which are the tombs of all the khans who have reigned in the Crimea.
We went over the vast Persian khans of Astrakhan, but saw none of those gorgeous stuffs for which they were formerly so celebrated.
Its whole coast belonged to the sultans of Constantinople, and the khans of the Crimea.
For my part I heartily forgave the khans for having painted their walls so queerly, in consideration of the charming fountain that plashed on the marble, and the little garden filled with rare flowers adjoining the saloon.
Some isolated pavilions contain the tombs of khans of most eminent renown.
The khans of the Crimea next took possession of it, and let it gradually fall into decay.
But we have the record of several embassies in preceding and subsequent years from the Mongol Khans of Persia to the Kings of England; all with the view of obtaining co-operation in attack on the Egyptian Sultan.
Indeed Timkowski speaks of annual tributes of white camels and white horses from the Khans of the Kalkas and other Mongol dignitaries, in the present century.
The way of burying the Mongol Khansis described in the Yuan shi (ch.
The Khans usually resorted to Shangtu in the 4th moon and returned to Peking in the 9th.
Mongol period on the burial-places of Chingiz Khan and of the Khans who succeeded him.
Golovkin has told us, that according to a story actually current among the Mongols, the tombs of the former Mongol Khans are situated near Tasola Hill, equally in the vicinity of the Kerulen.
Ranjoor Singh claimed that our transit fee had been paid for us already, and the Khans did not deny it.
But before actual skirmishing began the Khans would come to us, after getting money from the Germans, and it was only the fact that we had Tugendheim to show that convinced them we belonged to the party ahead.
I think there were not many more of them than of the German party and us combined; and at that the Bakhtiari Khans were all divided into independent troops.
There came a day when the Bakhtiari Khans gave us a terrible last attention and then left us--as it turned out for good (although we did not know then it was for good).
But the Bakhtiari Khansreceived word of what was doing, and after that there were new problems.
If the Bakhtiari Khans should annihilate us their own fate would not be likely to tremble in the balance very long.
Perhaps they, too, saw the Bakhtiari Khans retiring in the distance, for we were close behind them at that time--so close that even with tired horses we came on them before they could man the village wall.
At first the Khans were content with blackmail, holding up the Germans at intervals and demanding money.
Hitherto the bulk of his gold has been going into Persia to bribe the Bakhtiari Khans and such like, but that day is gone by.
It was formerly the residence of the khans of Khokand, and has beautiful gardens and a large park in the middle of the town.
The place was modernized about a generation ago by Zia Pasha, the poet, when governor, and is now an unusually well built Turkish town with good bazaar and khans and a fine clock-tower.
The sirdars are hereditary nobles, the khans are representatives of the people, and the mullahs of Mahommedan religion.
Gardens extend for miles along the river, and the bazaars and khans are unusually large.
The Teheran Government of the Khadjars and its retinue of provincial Khans have plundered and exploited you through many centuries.
Mirzas and Khans only wear them, and I am sure you are no such personage.
In Mongolia he attempted to assert a formal supremacy over the khans through the person of an adventurer named Kulitchi, but the agent was unable to fulfill his promises, and met with a speedy overthrow.
Several of their khans surrendered, and at a general assembly Taitsong proclaimed his intention to govern them as Khan of their khans, or by the title of Tien Khan, which means Celestial Ruler.
It is typical of the long continuance of old tribal traditions that a leader of the tribe in the tenth century married a woman belonging to the family to which the khans of the Hsiung-nu and all Turkish ruling houses had belonged since 200 B.
The pedigree of the khans of Siberia is given by Abulghazi, (part viii.
The Seljukian dynasty was no more; and the distance and decline of the Mogul khans soon enfranchised him from the control of a superior.
Before this revolution, they had forfeited their supremacy over the dependent branches of their house, the khans of Kipzak and Russia, the khans of Zagatai, or Transoxiana, and the khans of Iran or Persia.
The sultans of Iconium opposed some resistance to the Mogul arms, till Azzadin sought a refuge among the Greeks of Constantinople, and his feeble successors, the last of the Seljukian dynasty, were finally extirpated by the khans of Persia.
Footnote 2: The khans of the Keraites were most probably incapable of reading the pompous epistles composed in their name by the Nestorian missionaries, who endowed them with the fabulous wonders of an Indian kingdom.
As there was now no further cause for delay, the band of warriors prepared to leave the scene of their exploit; the Dehli Khans rushing forward, and waving their swords as a parting salute of defiance to their foes.
History of the first four Khans of the House of Jenghis, St. Pet.
As one of Arangbar's khans and a foreign ambassador, Brian Hawksworth was installed by the maharana in a special suite in his city palace reserved for dignitaries.
The meeting broke up, and Captain Trevor accompanied the Khans to the city, “as a hostage for the sincerity of the Envoy.
With all other classes his Majesty is decidedly, but deservedly, popular, and the Khans are too contemptible to be cared about.
Lawrence stood behind his chief until urged by one of the Khans to seat himself, when he knelt down on one knee, in the attitude of a man ready for immediate action.
Khans of the two towns are open to a little bribing.
Tain-fu is the name of the kingdom or province, and of the chief city, which is large and handsomely built, carrying on much trade, and containing great magazines of military stores for the khans army.
This country is under subjection to one of the khans of the Tartars.
In the four angles, and in the middle of each side of this interior wall, there are eight large and magnificent buildings, in which the khans provisions, and other things belonging to the court, are stored up.
But in the days of Marco, the khans had betaken themselves to the luxurious ease of fixed residences and he might have misunderstood the information he received of the residence of Mangu.
For two hundred years, Russia had been held by the khans in slavery.
There were, fortunately, at this time, two rival khansbeyond the waves of the Caspian opposing each other with bloody cimeters.
As many as 400 tents are pitched here in the height of the season, and the coming and going of Khans and headmen with tribute and on other business is ceaseless.
Several of the small Khans who have been to see me expect fighting here before the end of the summer.
Various considerations dispose the Ilkhani and the other Khans to minimise or magnify the population.
Constructed of stone, wood and timber, it was patterned after the time-tested khans of Ali's native country.
Spacious enough for five times as many camels, the corral differed in a notable respect from most khans Ali had seen.
In accordance with oriental custom, noticed before, by which khans seldom or never change, but occupy the same spot from age to age, a halting place for travellers has stood here from immemorial antiquity.
The duty and honour of providing and maintaining these khans devolved upon the sheikh or head man of the village, who was empowered to levy a tax upon the villagers for their support.
These establishments consist of houses like thekhans of Syria.
The Russian government is autocratic inasmuch as over the larger part of the country it has simply succeeded to the position of the Mongolian khans who from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century held the Russian people in subjection.
The next day we were taken under a strong guard to the house of Zuman Khan, where a council of the Khans were being held.
He was, moreover, acknowledged by all the otherkhans as their chief.
Armies had to be maintained, and the khans of the Golden Horde found occupation in keeping down the Russian princes.
The little boy who now wields the sceptres of the khans must be too young to hold a plough, and I suppose he does it by commission, if indeed he is not too degenerate to do it at all.
The Mongol khans taught the Russian princes how to oppress the people.
The Khans were often followed into conquered territories by a small proportion only of their own race, sometimes by a few families, and sometimes by a few individuals only, their armies being mainly composed of alien elements.
The Tartar kingdoms of Kazan and the Crimea were both offshoots from the khans of Kapchak.
The morality of the kings, khans or emperors may be assumed to have been on a par with that of the people; it was in intellect only that they were pre-eminent.
Little was known of the city of the khans except what the Jesuits had communicated in the last century, and what that prince of travellers, Marco Polo, had handed down from the middle ages.
Some of the yourts are better furnished than others, those for example belonging to the khans or princes.
The Mongol Tartars pay tax, though somewhat irregularly, to the Pekin Government, the native khans or princes being responsible for the revenues of their several “khanates” or districts.
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