OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 46184

khagan

Meanings (ES + gloss)
gran jan • jaghan
A khan of khans, a ruler of a khaganate; (the holder of) an imperial rank used among certain Turkic and Mongolian peoples, equal in status to an emperor.
"A kagan is the father, the mother and the lover of all his people. Nobody would lift a hand against him," said Hanukkah.
As early as the year 740 A.D., one of the Khazar kaghans had turned to Constantinople for a missionary versed in Christian law.
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