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Tokhtamysh

1342 - 1406

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Tokhtamysh (Turki/Kypchak and Persian: توقتمش; Kazakh: Тоқтамыс; Tatar: Тухтамыш, romanized: Tuqtamış; c. 1342 – 1406) was Khan (ruler) of the Golden Horde, who briefly succeeded in consolidating the Blue and White Hordes into a single polity. Tokhtamysh belonged to the House of Borjigin, tracing his ancestry to Genghis Khan. Spending most of his younger years fighting against his father's cousin Urus Khan and his sons, Tokhtamysh sought help from the Turco-Mongol warlord Timur, with whose help he succeeded in defeating his enemies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tokhtamysh has received more than 395,413 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Tokhtamysh is the 916th most popular politician (up from 1,007th in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from Russia (up from 117th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Russian Politician.

Tokhtamysh is most famous for his conquest of Baghdad and the murder of the caliph, Al-Musta'sim.

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  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tokhtamysh ranks 916 out of 19,576. Before him are Galla Placidia, Constantine V, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Josiah, Ancus Marcius, and Tullus Hostilius. After him are Maria Carolina of Austria, Theodoric I, Jeongjo of Joseon, Ivan Mazepa, Moshe Sharett, and Isabel Martínez de Perón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1342, Tokhtamysh ranks 1. After him are Philip the Bold, Antipope Clement VII, Jeong Dojeon, Uskhal Khan Tögüs Temür, Catherine of Bohemia, Frederick the Simple, Leo V, King of Armenia, Julian of Norwich, and Sancho Alfonso, 1st Count of Alburquerque. Among people deceased in 1406, Tokhtamysh ranks 3. Before him are Ibn Khaldun, and Pope Innocent VII. After him are Henry III of Castile, Claus Sluter, William, Duke of Austria, Robert III of Scotland, Coluccio Salutati, Joanna, Duchess of Brabant, Eustache Deschamps, Balthasar, Landgrave of Thuringia, and Maria de Luna.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Tokhtamysh ranks 105 out of 3,761. Before him are Lev Kamenev (1883), Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850), Alexander Alekhine (1892), Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893), Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857), and Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869). After him are Ilya Prigogine (1917), Sergey Lavrov (1950), Vladimir Komarov (1927), Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), and Boris Spassky (1937).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Tokhtamysh ranks 39. Before him are Dmitry Medvedev (1965), Alexis of Russia (1629), Nikolai Bukharin (1888), Ivan VI of Russia (1740), Lev Kamenev (1883), and Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869). After him are Sergey Lavrov (1950), Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan (1797), Grigory Potemkin (1739), Alexander Kolchak (1874), Dzhokhar Dudayev (1944), and Ivan V of Russia (1666).

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