Khagan or Qaghan (Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ; Khaan or Khagan; Old Turkic: 𐰴𐰍𐰣 Kaɣan) [a] is a title of imperial rank in Turkic, Mongolic, and some other languages, equal to the status of emperor and someone who rules a khaganate (empire). [1] The female equivalent is Khatun.

A khanate or khaganate refers to historic polities ruled by a khan, khagan, khatun, or khanum. [1][2] Khanates were typically nomadic Mongol and Turkic or Tatar societies located on the Eurasian Steppe, [3][4][5] and politically equivalent in status to kinship-based chiefdoms and feudal monarchies.

Oghuz Khagan or Oghuz Khan (Turkish: Oğuz Kağan or Oğuz Han; Azerbaijani: Oğuz Xan or Oğuz Xaqan; Turkmen: Oguz Han or Oguz Kagan) is a legendary khan of the Turkic people and an eponymous ancestor of Oghuz Turks. [1]

Oct 7, 2018 · Historically speaking, the ruler of a Mongolian tribe was given the title ‘Khan’. Later on, this title was adopted by many Muslim societies. Although there were many khanates throughout history, the most famous ones are those that succeeded the Mongol Empire. During the 13th century, the Mongol Empire was established by Genghis Khan.

Aug 25, 2017 · KHAGAN (Ḵāqān, “supreme ruler”), title of Xianbei (a leading nomadic group in northern China) origin that entered Persian during the first Turkish empire and has been used by medieval Muslim historians in reference to various rulers, including heads of Turkish federations, the emperor of China, etc.

The meaning of KHAGAN is khan.

As nouns the difference between khan and khagan is that khan is after Genghis Khan, a ruler over various Turkish, Tatar and Mongol peoples in the Middle Ages while khagan is a khan of khans, a ruler of a khaganate; (a holder of) an imperial rank used among certain Turkic and Mongolian peoples, equal in status to an emperor.

Khagan or Kha Khan or Qagan, alternatively spelled Kağan, Kagan, Khaghan, Kha-khan, Xagahn, Qaghan, Chagan, or Kha'an, is a title of imperial rank in the Mongolian and Turkic languages equal to the status of emperor and someone who rules a khaganate.

Khagan (Qaghan) was a title used by the Turkic people of the Medieval Ages. The First and Second Turkic Khaganate were empires ruled by the Ashina tribe of the Göktürks that controlled much of Central Asia and the Mongolian Plateau between 552 and 745 and composed of confederated Turkic tribes.

Aug 30, 2019 · One of the most intriguing peoples of the Middle Ages were the Khazars, a Turkic tribe of obscure origin who long dominated the regions above the Black and Caspian Seas. The Khazar Khaganate was a major power that jostled with the Empire of Constantinople and the Arab Empire for influence on the eastern end of the Mediterranean.