The Nāṣirī Generations 248.2.9

248.2.9

The author continues in the same strain, making similar blunders, while the truth lies under his very nose, but he fails to see it, and here is a very rich specimen:—“The princes of this empire [Kaptshak—Khafchak?] were Mongols or Tatars, but the majority of their subjects were Turks”! ! He also states, taking his information from different European writers, that Genghis Khan, though born in the tribe especially designated as black Tatars, yet adopted the denomination of Mongols for his people; and “that the appellation Tatar lost all signification in Asia under the destroying power of Ghenghis (sic) Khan, and has ever since existed only in the European vocabulary!”