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Güregen
Güregen, meaning 'royal son-in-law', was a title borne in the Mongol world by men who married into the family of Genghis Khan. Timur, who was not a Chinggisid and therefore could not call himself khan, adopted it after marrying a Chinggisid princess, Saray Mulk Khanum, in 1370, and his successors used it to borrow Chinggisid prestige. Its Persian form, Gurkani, gave the Timurid and Mughal house its dynastic name.
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