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presently ousted by Dava = camel, the son of Btiriie, who held Khutan (where he was Z' .B.

buried) as an ally of Kaidtâ, by whom he was now, in 671 H. =1272 A.D., set on the

throne of Chaghtây (Y.C.).

Dava Khan after this put an end to all other Aoktay rivals, and added Turkistan

north of the Jaxartes to the Chaghtay dominions. On the return of Tymûr Cain,

the son and successor of Cublay (under whose glorious reign the indolence and

barbarity of the Moghol character was greatly improved and softened by their

contact with the industry and polish of the Chinese), from his raid down to Lahore

Dava joined Kaidû against him. The hostile armies met and fought 701 H. = 1301

A.D. in the country between Karakoram and the Tarim river of Lob (in the vicinity

probably of Karashahr the modern site of the ancient Jalish). Kaidû was defeated,

and, dying on his way home, was succeeded by his sou Chaba or Shabar. He and

Dava now united in submission to Tymûr Cain, but they soon after quarrelled.

Tymi r Cain attacked Chaba, 703 H. =1303 A.D., between Samarcand and Khujand,

whilst Dava seized all the Chaba territory and reunited the Chaghtay empire as

before its division by Kaidd (Y.C.).

This did not last long, however, for Dava died in 706 H. = 1306 A.D., and the Y.C.

people of Eastern Turkistan, who had been under Kaidisi rule, such as the Uighur

of Kashghar, Yarkand, and Allahtagh (Alatagh), preferred a separate rule to that of

the Musulmans of Mawaranahar, and, finding no Chaghtay descendant amongst them,

invited Aymil Khoja, the son of Dava Khan, to be their ruler. He was succeeded

in 1347 A.D. by Toghltzc Tymtir, who thus once more re-established the eastern

branch of the Chaghtay Irani, known as the kingdom of Mogholistan or the Jattah

14/4 whose capital was at Kashghar first, then at Yarkand, and later at Aksti, with

the summer quarters at Atbashi on the Upper Narin to the north of the Allahtagh.

Meanwhile in Mawaranahar another son of Dava, named Konjuk, had ascended V.B.

the throne. He died very shortly, and then Talikada, a descendant of Moaltakin, a

Chaghtay, who was killed at Bamyan, succeeded. He accepted Islam, and was the

second convert amongst Moghol rulers. He was soon killed by his nobles, who then

set Kabak, another son of Dava, on the throne. Chaba warred with him, and was

defeated. Kabak now resigned the Government to an elder brother, Eshan Bogha,

who was chief of the Chaghtay ûl48 from 709H.=1309 A.D. to 716H.=1316 A.D.

He conquered Khurasan up to the Murghab river in 1315 A.D. In retaliation for

this Oljattx, the Moghol King of Persia, under the name of Khuda Banda, sent an

army with a convert brother of Eshan Bogha, named Yasavar (and a refugee with him)

to ravage Mawaranahar. They massacred, pillaged, and captivated the population

up to Samarcand in the depth of winter. Eshan Bogha now disappeared, and Kabak,

resuming the Government, punished his rebel brother, and died 721H.=1321 A.D.

After this followed many years of rivalry and anarchy under successive Chiefs,

till the time of Kabil Shah in 1363 A.D. During this period, since the invasion of

Changiz, the Moghol character succumbed to the superior physique and innervation

of their subjects of the Caucasian stock, and their manners and religion declined

before the advancing force of a revived Islam.

After the death of Kabak, the Khani of the Chaghtay empire in 1321 A.D. Y.C.

fell to the hands of Elchi Gaday, who was succeeded by Tarmashirin Khan. He

became a convert to Islam, and, adopting the name 'Alauddin, abandoned Almaligh,

the later capital of the Moghols—the first and original capital was Beshbaligh—and

removed his Court to Mawaranahar. He was dethroned 1334-35 A.D. by his

brother Bliztin Khan. He persecuted the Musalmans, who at this time everywhere

displayed a remarkable activity and zeal in propagating their polity and creed ; but

was very soon deposed by Chansi, or Jinkshi Khan, also of the Chaghtay line, to

whom Pope Benedict XII. in 1338 A.D. addressed a letter of thanks for the protection

he afforded to Christians.

He in turn was shortly ousted from the Government by Yesuntimur, and he

again, in 1338-39 A.D., by 'Ali Sultan, that "certain villain of a falconer, a Saracen