Chagatai Khanate

The Chagatai Khanate was one of the successor states of the Mongol Empire, named after Chagatai, the second son of Genghis Khan, who received a territory in Central Asia, including Transoxiana and the lands of the Tarim basin. The khanate was ruled by his descendants, who gradually adopted the Turkic language and Islam, and became more settled. It split in the fourteenth century into a western part, in Transoxiana, where Timur later rose to power, and an eastern part called Moghulistan. Its rulers fought with the Ilkhanate and the Yuan dynasty, and later with Timur. Several smaller khanates inherited its traditions, and the Chagatai language became a literary language of the Turkic peoples of Central Asia.

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