Talk:Chagatai Khanate

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Chaghatai or Chagatai or Jagatai was a son of Jenghiz or Genhiz or Jinghiz Khan. To call his ulus or empire the Chaghatai or the Chagatai Khanate is like calling Jenghiz Khan's conquests the "Jenghiz Empire". "Ogodite" is commonly used as adjective for Ogodei, another son of Jenghiz. "Jinghizids" or "Jenghizids" is also used for the descendants of Jenghiz, or for those who claimed descent from him. The adjective for Chaghatai can properly be "Chaghataite" or "Jaghataite". Hence, Chaghataite's empire can and perhaps should be called the "Chaghataite Khanate".

[edit] Article Duplication

It looks like these two articles: Chagatai Khanate and Chaghataite khanate are about the same person. I added the merger tags at the top and will add them to the Wikipedia:Duplicate articles. Even though the other article has more content the this one is included in the {{History_of_Mongolia}} and looks like the naming issue is addressed at the top so I indiacte that the articles should be merged here. Dalf | Talk 03:34, 7 May 2005 (UTC)