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Excerpt from Calmuc Tartary, or a Journey From Sarepta to Several Calmuc Hordes of the Astracan Government: From May 26 to August 21, 1823; Undertaken, on Behalf of the Russian Bible Society Great Mogul was divided between his two brothers. Hulaku governed Persia, and Koblai ruled from 1259 to 1294, as Lord of the Kaptschek, or Mo gul Empire, extending from Tonkin and Cochin China, on the eastern coast, over China and Mon golia to Siberia, and from thence to Persia. Dif fereat Mogul tribes, with their respective princes, were attached as vassals to the Great Mogul; Sorta, on the Volga, (for instance) and others. The capital was Pekin, in China. This empire flourished through the whole of the thirteenth, and part of the fourteenth century. This was the golden age of the Moguls, in every respect; for, under koblai-khan, the nation imbibed, from its dependants and neighbours, its first tinge of civi lization by literature and religion. This was de rived especially from Thibet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.