What is "mangu"

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The fourth son of Jengiz, whose name was Tuli or Tuluï, died in 1232, during the reign of his brother Oktaï, leaving four sons, named Mangu, Kublaï, Hulagu, and Artigbuga, besides others of less historical fame.

Of these, Mangu or Mongu was chosen, in 1251, to succeed his cousin Gaiuk as grand khan, and chiefly through the influence of Batu, who had a superior claim, as the son of the eldest brother, but seems not to have affected that dignity.

One of the first acts of Mangu was to send Hulagu (from Kara-korum, his capital) with a powerful army that enabled him to subdue the countries of Khorasan, Persia, Chaldea, and a great part of Syria.

Their chief, here named Ala-ù or Hala-ù, is the celebrated Hulagu, the son of Tuli or Tulwi, and equally with Batu, Mangu, and Kublaï (the latter of whom were his brothers), the grandson of Jengiz-khan.

Being appointed by his elder brother Mangu, to command in the southern provinces of the empire, he left Kara-korum, a short time before the visit of Rubruquis to that Tartar capital, and in the year 1255 crossed the Jihun or Oxus, with a large army.

Upon the death of Mangu, in 1259, Hulagu became effectively the sovereign of Persian and Babylonian Irak, together with Khorasan.

Kublaï was at this time in the province of Hu-kuang, and persevered in his efforts to render himself master of Vu-chang-fu, its capital, until he was called away to suppress a revolt excited by his younger brother Artigbuga, whom Mangu had left as his lieutenant at Kara-korum.

The noyon of the Mangu Tuman was quite young, even for these times when few men of Tebtengri reached great age.

For a while the GurKhan of the Mangu Tuman and the field agent of the Imperial Terrestrial Naval Intelligence Corps danced around the kibitka singing about the flowers that bloom in the spring.

Our author seems to have included Batu in his enumeration, who was the eldest or the grandsons of Jengiz, but waved his right to the sovereignty in favour of Mangu his nephew.

Accordingly we find that whilst the succession was for a time disputed between Kublaï and his younger brother, the sons of Mangu, instead of asserting their own rights, took part with him who eventually proved to be the weaker of their uncles.

While the last ruins of the Sung rule were going down in China, another brother of Mangu, Hulagu, was conquering Persia and Syria.