Kara-Kishek
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Kara-Kishek or Qara-Kesek (Bulgarian: Кара-Кишек; fl. 1302–1325) was a Mongol nobleman, the son of Chaka, himself the son of Golden Horde kingmaker Nogai Khan.
The new khan, Toqta, defeated and murdered Nogai and Chaka in 1299–1300.
In 1302, Kara-Kishek and his two relatives Dzherik-Temir (Джерик-Темир) and Yol-Kutlu (Юлукутлу) fled with 3,000 horsemen to Shishman of Vidin. Shishman, a Cuman and previous subject to Nogai Khan, gave refuge to them and they still lived in Vidin at the time of Egyptian chronicler Baybar (died 1325). Kara-Kishek and the horsemen raided alongside Shishman, and these Tatar mercenaries were important in the victories of Shishman and his son, Bulgarian emperor Michael Shishman (r. 1323–1330).
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