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Terken Khatun (wife of Tekish)

d. 1233 · 13th century

Terken Khatun was the wife of the Khwarazmshah Ala ad-Din Tekish and mother of Ala ad-Din Muhammad II. A princess of the Qangli Turks, she kept her own court at Gurganj, and her kinsmen held key military commands, giving her power that rivalled her son's. When the Mongols invaded in 1220 she fled to Mazandaran, where she was captured; she died in captivity in Mongolia.

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