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Abu'l-Ghazi Bahadur
Abu'l-Ghazi Bahadur was khan of Khiva from about 1643 to 1663 and a noted historian. After years of exile in Safavid Iran he took the throne, fought the Kalmyks and Bukhara and strengthened the khanate. He wrote in Chagatai Turkic the Shajara-i Tarakima, a genealogy of the Turkmens, and the Shajara-i Turk, a history of the Turks and Mongols.
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