Jochi was a Mongol army leader and the eldest son of Genghis Khan. He was Genghis Khan's four sons by his main wife Börte, though paternity questions dogged him throughout his life. He was ...

The Ilkhanate, also written Il-khanate and referred to the Mongols as Hülegü Ulus, was a khanate from the Mongol Empire's southwestern province. The Mongol House of Hulagu governed th ...

The Golden Horde was a Mongol and eventually Turkicized khanate founded in the 13th century and originating as the Mongol Empire's northwestern division. It became a functionally distinct khana ...

The Khwarazmian or Khwarezmian Kingdom was a Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim territory that governed large parts of modern-day Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran between 1077 and 1231, first as vassals ...

From 1413 to 1421, Mehmed I, also known as Mehmed Çelebi or Kirişçi, was the Ottoman Sultan. During the Ottoman Interregnum, he fought with his brothers for leadership of the Ottoman ...

The Ottoman Empire was founded and rose during a period of history that began with establishing the Ottoman principality in c. 1299 and concluded in c. 1453. Its growth from a minor principality on ...

Members of the imperial House of Osman, popularly known as the Ottomans, formed the Ottoman dynasty. According to Ottoman legend, the family descended from the Kay tribe branch of the Oghuz Turks, ...

The Ottoman Empire grew into a despotic autocracy over the centuries. The Sultan was the sole ruler of a centralized government with effective authority over its regions, authorities, and citizens. ...

The Ottoman Empire's history throughout the 18th century has been characterized as one of stagnation and reform. It is often referred to as the Ancien Régime, or "Old Regime," ...

Here is the list of Genghis Khan's ancestors. This tree only includes significant members of the Borjigin family and does not go all the way up to the present day. Amid the tree, Genghis Khan e ...