Qara'unas

The Qara'unas the Mongols were attributed to gangs of robbers, in the 13th/14th. Nomadisierten century in the Hindu Kush and in Sistan. By 1300, Ghazni was their unofficial capital.

History

To 1229 Various Mongol commanders settled in the Hindu Kush and took in the following decades forays to India. The of them recruited (mostly native ) troops formed the nucleus of the later Qara'unas Army. In the division of the Mongol Empire in various spheres of interest sat down to 1262 Chagatai Khan Algui (r. 1260-1264/6 ) as overlords in the Hindu Kush by. However, some of the Qara'unas arranged to the 1279 Ilkhan Abaqa (reigned 1265-82 ) under and later supported his son Arghun (reigned 1284-91 ) in the power struggles on his accession.

To 1303 the historian Rashid ed Din mentions some prince of Chagatai as a leader of the Qara'unas Army. Particularly well-known is this Qutlugh Khoja, a son of Khan Du'a which minted its own coins and 1299 a large army against the Delhi Sultan Ala - ud- Din Khalji (r. 1296-1316 ) led. In addition, several emirs be described as an independent leader. An excellent example here is the Emir Kazagan (reigned 1346-1357 ), the 1346 the Chagatai Khan Kazan ( r. 1330er/1343-1346 ) defeated and killed, and then on the western part of the Khanate managed ( under the nominal rule of a employed by him Khan ). Kazagans grandson Hussain was in 1370 by his rival, Timur Lenk ( r. 1365/70-1405 ) defeated, whereupon the Qara'unas disappeared as a separate group from history.

Today's Hazara, an ethnic group (partly ) of Mongolian origin, be regarded as their descendants.

The Qara'unas are often mentioned in the same breath with the Nikudarian, leaderless Mongolian troops of unknown origin, which also operated in the 13th century as bandits and partly cooperated with the Qara'unas.

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