The Rashīdī History 4.3.6

4.3.6

Although this wide tract never fell permanently to him or his race, his temporary hold over it seems to have assisted in marking it out as a self-contained eastern division of the Chaghatai realm, and the greater portion of it — all that lay to the north of the Tian Shan — acquired, about this time, the name of Moghulistan, or vulgarly "Jatah." It was, above all parts of that realm, the land of the purely nomad Moghul (or Mongol) tribes, as distinguished from the settled populations of Turkistan, Farghana, and Mavara-un-Nahr on the one hand, and the mountaineers of Hisar, Karatigin, Badakhshan, etc., on the other. It was the land to or from which the tent-dwelling population could migrate, and carry with them their only wealth — their flocks and herds — when safety or other interests demanded a move; and it became, moreover, as Mirza Haidar's history will show, a sort of refuge for the defeated and discontented among those tribes and the neighbouring nations, and the country that the true Moghul loved to call his own.