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Tsewang Rabtan
Tsewang Rabtan was ruler of the Dzungar Khanate from 1697 until his death in 1727. A nephew of Galdan Boshugtu Khan, he restored Dzungar power after Galdan's defeat by the Qing, fought the Qing and Russia, and in 1717 sent an army that took Lhasa. His invasion of the Kazakh Khanate in 1723 is remembered by the Kazakhs as the Great Disaster.
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