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Genghis Khan
 
SYLLABICATION:Gen·ghis Khan
PRONUNCIATION:  jnggs kän, gng-
DATES:1162?–1227
VARIANT FORMS: also Jen·ghis Khan or Jen·ghiz Khan (  jngz kän, -gs, jng-)
VARIANTS:Originally Temujin.
Mongol conqueror who united the Mongol tribes and forged an empire stretching from China to the Danube River and into Persia. In 1206 he took the name Genghis Khan (“supreme conqueror.”)
 
 
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