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Habich Baghatur

khan of The Borjigid

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ3812393 ↗
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Habich Baatar, Habich Khan or Habich Baatar Khan (Mongol: Хабич Баатар, living around 10th–Centuries AD.) was a ruler of the Mongol Borjigin. He was the son and successor of his father Bodonchar Khan, one of his descendants was his great-great-great-great-grandson khabul Khan founded the Khamag Mongol confederation. Habich Khan was the ancestral proginator of Genghis Khan (r. 1206 – 1227) the founder of the Mongol empire and also Amir Timur of the Barlas clan (r. 1370 – 1405) the founder of Timurid empire.

Family

He was the son and successor of Bodonchar Khan, and great-great-grandfather of Khaidu Khan. His son Menen Tudun Khan succeeded him. He was the ancestor of Mongol Empire founder Genghis Khan (from the Kiyat branch of Borjigin). Genghis built his empire and spread it across Asia and large parts of Europe.

Habich was an ancestor of the founder of the Timurid Empire, Amir Timur, who was from the Barlas branch of the Borjigin.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1206, 1227, 1370, 1405—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Habich, Baghatur and khan can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as khan of The Borjigid. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Habich Baghatur” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.