(1) In 864, Boris I together with his entire court and many other Bulgarians accepted Christianity and changed his pagan title khan to kniaz (prince).

(2) Furthermore, the khan was awarded the title of Caesar, making him second only to the emperor.

(3) There, a Genoese colony was under siege from a khan of the Golden Horde named Yannibeg, when his army was decimated by an outbreak of plague.

(4) Timur's trajectory began with a three-year struggle to achieve dominance, at the end of which in 1370 he proclaimed himself not merely emir of Samarkand but khan of the Chagatai and inheritor of Genghis's Mongol empire.

(5) Each of the domes represents a battle in Ivan's triumphant war against the rebellious khan of Kazan.

(6) She complained about the poor planning of the town to the khan , and suggested that Jilan-Tau would be a better place for the city, because it was close to a river.

(7) A mission from Pope Innocent IV in 1246 to the Mongol great khan was politely received but the message back invited the pope to submit.

(8) In Qutaifah we were told by several local people that there was no khan in their town, only the Khan al-Arus some kilometers away.

(9) The spiritual leader of Mongolia's Lamaists was proclaimed khan of Mongolia on 16 December, and the country's religious center, Urga, became the capital.

(10) However, I have since found two eighteenth-century accounts of traveling between Aleppo and Damascus by English travelers, who both report staying at a khan in Qutaifah.

(11) The ruler of the state, the khan , was in charge of foreign political affairs and was commander of the army in times of war.

(12) The three khans were subject to the Khakhan (the Great Khan), but were generally resentful in their relations with him.

(13) The title was also used of Tatar khans , Biblical kings, and of various rulers in folk genres.

(14) For the first time in Bulgaria, archaeologists have excavated a grave of a Proto-Bulgarian aristocrat from the age of the khans .

(15) In 1873 the Russians established their control over Khiva, the last of the major independent khanates of Central Asia.

(16) From rival tribes, the Tibetans were united in the sixth century; they were led by strong tribal leaders until the thirteenth century, when Mongol khans created a theocracy under their Buddhist spiritual advisors.

(17) In the next century an Englishman employed by the Tsar visited Central Asia, and this was followed by the dispatch of emissaries to the various khanates of the region.

(18) The struggle between Russia and Great Britain in the late nineteenth century saw major Central Asian khanates , such as Bukhara, Samarkand, and Tashkent, fall under Russian influence.

(19) Their princes, or khans , made capital and court at Karabalghasun on the River Orkhon in present-day Mongolia.

(20) The rulers of Moscow rose to pre-eminence among the scattered principalities as agents of the Mongol khans , who employed them to maintain order in their Russian realm and collect the tribute.