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khan

Historically, the ruler or monarch of a Mongol tribe. Early on a distinction was made between the title of khan and that of khakan, or “great khan.” Later the term khan was adopted by the Seljuq and Khwarezm-Shah dynasties as a title for the highest nobility. Gradually it became an affix to the name of any Muslim property owner. Today it is often used as a surname.


khan
1. 
a. (formerly) a title borne by medieval Chinese emperors and Mongol and Turkic rulers: usually added to a name
b. such a ruler
2. a title of respect borne by important personages in Afghanistan and central Asia


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STUMM /(Aesthetic Death) -- The truly regressive and primitive traits I note highly, kind of like going back to the third grade and making doom a required class that worships Khanate and Eye Hate God.
The power vacuum in Xinjiang was then immediately filled by Ya'qub Beg, a "holy warrior" from Khoqand Khanate.
The 19th century, for example, saw a consistent overhaul of the entire political system in the highlands, which abolished principalities and khanates and established oblasts (governments) of the Russian Empire.
 
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