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Jani Beg
Jani Beg was khan of the Golden Horde from 1342 to 1357, son of Uzbek Khan. During his siege of the Genoese port of Caffa in 1346 plague broke out among his army, and ships from Caffa may have carried the Black Death towards Europe. In 1357 he invaded Azerbaijan, took Tabriz and executed the Chupanid ruler Malik Ashraf, but he died soon after, and the Horde fell into two decades of civil war.
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