Il Khan (also il-khan, ilkhan, elkhan, etc.), in Turkic languages and Mongolian, is a title of leadership. It combines the title khan with the prefix...

Ilkhanate or Il-khanate was a Mongol khanate founded in the southwestern territories of the Mongol Empire. It was ruled by the Il-Khans or Ilkhanids (Persian:...

Horde and the Il-Khanate, were already in open war. The roots of the conflict were related to battles between the descendants of Genghis Khan over the control...

direct descendants of Genghis Khan. Considered the most prominent of the il khans, he is perhaps best known for converting to Islam and meeting Imam Ibn...

Sorghaghtani Beki, he was a grandson of Genghis Khan and brother of Ariq Böke, Möngke Khan, and Kublai Khan. Hulegu's army greatly expanded the southwestern...

story of the princess Kököchin sent from China to Persia to marry the Īl-khān is also confirmed by independent sources in both Persia and China. Sceptics...

Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan (June 2, 1305 – December 1, 1335; Persian: ابو سعید بهادر خان), also spelled Abusaid Bahador Khan, Abu Sa'id Behauder (Modern Mongolian:...

King of Georgia (actually, only the eastern part of the country) by the Il-khan Öljeitü upon the death of his father in 1311. He reigned under the regency...

khan's son Khanbikeh (Tatar: Xanbikä) – a queen, khan's wife Khanbaliq (or Dadu) – Yuan capital which later developed into modern Beijing. Il khan Bogda...

Abaqa Khan (27 February 1234 – 4 April 1282, Mongolian: Абаха/Абага хан (Khalkha Cyrillic), ᠠᠪᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ ᠬᠠᠨ (Traditional script), "paternal uncle", also transliterated...

Jaghatu valley near Maragha to attend the qurultai for the election of new Il-Khan after Abaqa's death in April 1282. The main competition was between his...

princess and one of the wives of Il-Khan Hulagu, founder of Ilkhanate. Their son, Tekuder, briefly served as Il-Khan from 1282 until 1284. Khatun had...

the sister of Il-Khan Abu Sa'id (r. 1316–1333). She was the consort of amir Chupan (1319–1327), Il-Khan Arpa (r. 1335–36), and Il-Khan Suleiman (r. 1339–1343)...

Arpa Ke'un, also known as Arpa Khan or Gavon or Gawon (Persian: ارپا كاون; died 1336), was an Ilkhan (1335–1336) during the disintegration of the Ilkhanate...

Musa Khan (Persian: موسى خان) was an Ilkhan for 4 months. He was a grandson of Baydu. After securing Shaykh Hasan's neutrality, Musa's patron Ali Padshah...

which had named him Great Khan with the support of most of Genghis Khan's descendants. Kublai and the fourth brother, the Il-Khan Hulagu, opposed this. Kublai's...

Mustaufi and the Il-Khān dynasty of Iran,” Ph.D. diss, 3 vols., University of Manchester, 1983, pp. 354-355 "The Monks of Kublai Khan". www.aina.org. Retrieved...

Mubariz al-Din Muhammad, was brought up at the Il-Khan's court but returned to Maibud upon the death of the Il-Khan Öljeitü. In around 1319 he overthrew the...

were all murdered on the king's orders, Oshin's head being sent to the Il-Khan and Constantine's head to Al-Nasir Muhammad, Sultan of Egypt. Leo had his...

Samagar, also Cemakar, was a Mongol general of the Il-Khan ruler Abaqa Khan (1234–1282), mentioned as leading a Mongol invasion force in 1271, in attempted...

Muhammad Khan (died July 1338) was a claimant to the throne of the Ilkhanate. He was born Pir Husein, a great-grandson of Möngke Temür, a son of Hulagu...

either, thus losing a bid to throne. As a consequence, Gaykhatu was elected il-khan on 23 July 1291, Ahlat. Gaikhatu's main supporter was his new wife Uruk...

Jalairs were close to Great Khans in China and Il-khans in Iran. In Il-khanate, Jalair Buqa revolted against Tekuder Khan and installed Hulagu's grandson...

were acknowledged from Basra to Samsun. Hasan Buzurg and his Jahan Temür khan met the Chobanids under Hasan Kucek in battle on 21 June 1340 near the Jaghatu...

II near Aksaray and all of Anatolia became officially subject to Möngke Khan. In 1260 Kaykaus II fled from Konya to Crimea where he died in 1279. Kilij...

Dera Ismail Khan (/deɪrʌ-ɪsmaɪ.iːl-xɑːn/; Urdu and Saraiki: ڈیرہ اسماعیل خان, Pashto: ډېره اسماعيل خان), abbreviated as D.I. Khan, is a city and capital...

Arghun Khan (Mongolian Cyrillic: Аргун; Traditional Mongolian: ᠠᠷᠭᠤᠨ; c. 1258 – 10 March 1291) was the fourth ruler of the Mongol empire's Ilkhanate division...

marriage to Shams al-Din Juvayni, an influential minister at the Mongol Il-Khan’s court. Unlike David VII's first wife, the late Jigda-Khatun, Gvantsa was...

inscription in the name of the Il-Khan is dated 1269, and reports the cancellation of taxes: 718 (ie 1269). (In the name) of the Il-khan. By the grace of God,...

Suleiman Khan (Persian: ﺳﻠﻴﻤاﻥ ﺧﺎﻥ) was a Chobanid puppet for the throne of the Ilkhanate during the breakdown of central authority in Persia. His birth...