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 "slug": "terken-khatun",
 "label": {
  "ar": "تركان خاتون",
  "en": "Terken Khatun",
  "ur": "ترکان خاتون"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "تركان خاتون ⁦(ت 1233م)⁩، أميرة قبچاقية من قبيلة القانقلي، زوجة السلطان علاء الدين تكش وأم السلطان علاء الدين محمد خوارزم شاه وشريكته الفعلية في الحكم: كان لها ديوانها وختمها وجيوشها وأقاليمها، ولم تكن أوامر السلطان نافذة دون توقيعها. عند الغزو المغولي غادرت غرغانج قبل سقوطها فحوصرت في حصن بلاريجان واستسلمت، وماتت في الأسر سنة 630 هـ.",
  "en": "Terken Khatun (d. 1233), a Qipchaq princess of the Qangli tribe, wife of Sultan Ala al-Din Tekish and mother of Ala al-Din Muhammad II of Khwarazm, whose de facto co-ruler she was: she kept her own diwan, seal, armies and territories, and the sultan's decrees were ineffective without her signature. When the Mongols invaded she left Gurganj before its fall, was besieged in a fortress in Larijan and surrendered, and died in captivity in 630 AH.",
  "ur": "ترکان خاتون ⁦(وفات 1233ء)⁩، قبیلۂ قانقلی کی قبچاق شہزادی، سلطان علاء الدین تکش کی زوجہ اور سلطان علاء الدین محمد خوارزم شاہ کی والدہ اور عملاً ان کی شریکِ حکومت تھیں: ان کا اپنا دیوان، مہر، فوجیں اور علاقے تھے اور سلطان کے فرامین ان کے دستخط کے بغیر نافذ نہ ہوتے تھے۔ منگول حملے کے وقت وہ گرگانج کے سقوط سے پہلے وہاں سے نکل گئیں، لاریجان کے ایک قلعے میں محصور ہو کر ہتھیار ڈالے، اور 630ھ میں قید ہی میں وفات پائی۔"
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 "aliases": [],
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 1154.9990075087098,
  "latest": 1234.0013141953318
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1155~",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "A daughter of a Qipchaq khan — the Arabic article says of the Qangli tribe, the English article gives the Qangli or the Bayandur of the Kimek confederation. No source read fixes her birth year: the queue gives 1155 and Wikidata carries 1150 and 1151. No Hijri year is recorded for so unfixed a year.",
   "sources": [
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    "source/wikipedia-terken-khatun-ar",
    "source/wikidata-terken-khatun"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "1233",
   "hijri": "0630",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "In Mongol captivity in the Qara Qorum desert, where Genghis Khan had exiled her after her surrender at the Larijan fortress in early 617 AH and her dispatch to him at Talqan; the Arabic article gives her death in prison in 630 AH, and Wikidata gives 1233.",
   "sources": [
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    "source/wikipedia-terken-khatun-en",
    "source/wikidata-terken-khatun"
   ]
  }
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 "data": {
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   {
    "value": "تركان خاتون",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Turkan Khatun",
    "kind": "alternate"
   },
   {
    "value": "خداوند جهان",
    "kind": "laqab"
   },
   {
    "value": "Khudavand-e Jahan",
    "kind": "laqab"
   },
   {
    "value": "أولوغ تركان",
    "kind": "laqab"
   },
   {
    "value": "Ulug Turkan",
    "kind": "laqab"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "female",
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   "ruler"
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  "born": {
   "edtf": "1155~",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "A daughter of a Qipchaq khan — the Arabic article says of the Qangli tribe, the English article gives the Qangli or the Bayandur of the Kimek confederation. No source read fixes her birth year: the queue gives 1155 and Wikidata carries 1150 and 1151. No Hijri year is recorded for so unfixed a year.",
   "sources": [
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  "died": {
   "edtf": "1233",
   "hijri": "0630",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "In Mongol captivity in the Qara Qorum desert, where Genghis Khan had exiled her after her surrender at the Larijan fortress in early 617 AH and her dispatch to him at Talqan; the Arabic article gives her death in prison in 630 AH, and Wikidata gives 1233.",
   "sources": [
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  },
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "No source read names a school of law or theology for her personally, and Wikidata records no religion value for the item. A Qipchaq princess who ruled within a Muslim empire: origin and office are not attestations, so the value stays unclassified.",
    "sources": [
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Terken Khatun (wife of Ala al-Din Tekish)' (revision 1374801217 of 14 Sep 2026; the bare 'Terken Khatun' title is a disambiguation page), Arabic Wikipedia «تركان خاتون» (revision 61664857 of 15 Mar 2023), Wikidata Q5954482 (item rev. 2558702606 of 19 Oct 2026, re-asserted against a second live query in the same session). Existence checks by name fragments (terken, turkan, تركان) and by QID across data/person on origin/main found no prior record for the Khwarazmian empress. LABEL COLLISION (for the coordinator's homonym registration): she is a different woman from person/turkan-khatun, Malik-Shah I's wife, whose Arabic label is «تركان زوجة ملكشاه» and who has no English label; the two women's names coincide in both scripts (Terken/Turkan Khatun; تركان خاتون), and English-language sources use 'Turkan Khatun' for this empress as well, so the pair should be registered in data/_homonyms.yaml. RELATIONS: her husband person/ala-al-din-tekish and her son person/muhammad-khwarazmshah both have records on main; under the write-once rule the spouse_of edge belongs in the elder spouse's record (Tekish's) and the child_of edge in the son's record, so no family edge is written here.",
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  "status": {
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "تركان خاتون أميرة قبچاقية، ابنة خان من قبيلة القانقلي عند المقالة العربية، أو من قبيلة باياندور من اتحاد الكيماك عند المقالة الإنجليزية، تزوجت السلطان علاء الدين تكش فصارت إمبراطورة خوارزم، وهي أم السلطان علاء الدين محمد الثاني.{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-ar}{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-en} لا تثبت المصادر المقروءة سنة مولدها: تجعلها بعض القوائم سنة 1155م وتحمل ويكي بيانات سنتي 1150 و1151م.{cite:wikidata-terken-khatun}\n\nبعد زواجها من تكش أدخلت أقاربها والمقربين منها في إدارة الدولة والجيش، فعُيّن في كل إقليم يفتحه زوجها أو ابنها رجل من رجالها الموثوقين، حتى صارت تدير فعليًا أراضي الخوارزميين الشاسعة كلها.{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-en} وكان لها لقب «خداوند جهان» أي حاكمة العالم، وختم فرامينها «عصمة الدنيا والدين، أولوغ تركان، ملكة نساء العالمين».{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-en} وكان لها ديوان خاص وقصر وأقاليم شاسعة كأقاليم ابنها ووزير خاص وقائد لحرسها، ولم تكن أوامر السلطان نفسه نافذة دون توقيعها في المكافآت والعقوبات.{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-en}\n\nبعد وفاة تكش سنة 1200م هيمنت على بلاط ابنها محمد، ووصف أحد المؤرخين علاقتهما بأنها «ثنائية حكم متوترة» كثيرًا ما أضرت بالابن.{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-en} واشتد خلافها مع وريثه جلال الدين بن محمد من زوجة أخرى، وعملت على تقديم ابن آخر لمحمد هو أوزلاق شاه الذي ربّته بنفسها وليًا للعهد، ويُعدّ تدخلها السياسي الواسع من أسباب انهيار الدولة الخوارزمية أمام المغول.{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-en}\n\nعند الغزو المغولي غادرت تركان خاتون غرغانج قبل سقوطها بكل كنوزها وأموالها الملكية، ولجأت إلى حصن في لاريجان، فحاصر المغول الحصن في بداية سنة 617 هـ حتى استسلم لنقص الماء، فأرسلوها إلى جنكيز خان في طالقان بخراسان، فنفاها إلى صحراء قره قورم وظلت في السجن حتى توفيت سنة 630 هـ الموافقة 1233م.{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-ar}{cite:wikidata-terken-khatun}"
    }
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    "id": "person/terken-khatun",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
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   "updated": "2026-11-09"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Terken Khatun was a Qipchaq princess — a khan's daughter of the Qangli tribe in the Arabic article, of the Qangli or the Bayandur tribe of the Kimek in the English article — who married Sultan Ala al-Din Tekish and became empress of the Khwarazmian Empire and mother of Ala al-Din Muhammad II.{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-ar}{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-en} No source read fixes her birth year: some lists give 1155, while Wikidata carries 1150 and 1151.{cite:wikidata-terken-khatun}\n\nAfter her marriage she placed her relatives and close associates throughout the administration and the army, so that every region conquered by her husband or her son was assigned to one of her trusted people and she effectively controlled the whole territory of the Khwarazmshahs.{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-en} She bore the laqab Khudavand-e Jahan, \"Ruler of the World\", and her decrees ran under the seal \"Ismat al-Dunya wa'l-Din, Ulug Turkan, Malikat Nisa al-Alamin\" — Protector of Peace and Faith, Turkan the Great, Ruler of the Women of Both Worlds.{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-en} She kept her own diwan, palace, territories, vizier and guard commander, and the sultan's orders were not effective without her signature, in rewards and punishments alike.{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-en}\n\nAfter Tekish's death in 1200 she dominated the court of her son Muhammad II — one historian has termed their relationship an \"uneasy diarchy\", often to Muhammad's disadvantage.{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-en} She quarrelled bitterly with his heir Jalal al-Din, a son by another wife, and worked instead to advance Uzlaq, a son she had raised herself, as crown prince; her extensive political interference is counted among the reasons for the Khwarazmian Empire's collapse before the Mongols.{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-en}\n\nWhen the Mongols invaded, she left the capital Gurganj with the royal treasures before the city fell and took refuge in a fortress in Larijan; the Mongols besieged it at the start of 617 AH and it surrendered for lack of water, after which she was sent to Genghis Khan at Talqan in Khurasan and exiled to the Qara Qorum desert, remaining in captivity until her death in 630 AH, corresponding to 1233.{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-ar}{cite:wikidata-terken-khatun}"
    }
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "ترکان خاتون قبیلۂ قانقلی کی قبچاق شہزادی تھیں، سلطان علاء الدین تکش کی زوجہ اور سلطان علاء الدین محمد خوارزم شاہ کی والدہ۔{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-ar}{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-en} ان کی پیدائش کا سال ثابت نہیں: بعض فہرستیں 1155ء دیتی ہیں اور ویکی ڈیٹا 1150ء اور 1151ء۔{cite:wikidata-terken-khatun}\n\nشادی کے بعد انھوں نے اپنے اقربا کو ریاست و فوج کے عہدوں پر بٹھا کر پورے خوارزمی علاقے پر عملی گرفت حاصل کر لی؛ ان کا اپنا دیوان، مہر، علاقے اور فوج تھی اور سلطان کے فرامین ان کے دستخط کے بغیر نافذ نہ ہوتے تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-en} تکش کی وفات (1200ء) کے بعد انھوں نے بیٹے محمد کے دربار پر غلبہ رکھا، اور وارث جلال الدین کے بجائے اپنے پروردہ اوزلاق شاہ کو ولی عہد بنوانے کی کوشش کی؛ ان کی وسیع سیاسی مداخلت خوارزمی سلطنت کے انہدام کی وجوہ میں شمار ہوتی ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-en}\n\nمنگول حملے کے وقت وہ گرگانج سے نکل کر لاریجان کے قلعے میں محصور ہوئیں، قلعے کے استسلام کے بعد انھیں چنگیز خان کے پاس بھیجا گیا اور قرہ قورم کے صحرا میں جلاوطن رکھا گیا، جہاں 630ھ / 1233ء میں قید ہی میں ان کی وفات ہوئی۔{cite:wikipedia-terken-khatun-ar}{cite:wikidata-terken-khatun}"
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  "event/khwarazm-transoxiana-605",
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  "event/abu-al-hayja-hamadan-593",
  "event/death-of-khwarazmshah-617",
  "event/death-of-tughril-iii-590",
  "event/ibn-khurmail-killed-605",
  "event/khwarazm-conflict-1378"
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