Tāi Yāng, Khān, 155. Tājiki dialect, 181. Tājiks, the, origin and characteristics, 364; Iranian branch of Aryans represented by, 3. Talha, 100, 101. Tālikān, battle at, 57. Tanaïs (Don), Sir Daryā, mistaken for, by Alexander the Great, 7. Tanap, definition, 362 _note_. Tandar, 47. Tanga, value of, 212 _note_. _Tarikh-i-Rashidi_, _cited_ 116, 119, _passim_. Tashkent, siege and storming of, by Colonel Chernaieff, 247, 248; made capital of Turkestān, 249; railway to, 316. Tatatungo, 155. Tchinghiz (_see Chingiz_). Tea, importation of, to Bokhārā, 372; Chāy Kabūd, 401. Tekish, 145–47. Tekkes (_see Turkomans_). Temūchin (_see Chingiz_). Thogari, the, 13. Thomson, E. C. Ringler, _cited_ 324 _note_. Tīmūr Leng (Tamerlane), 168–72; conquests, 235; brilliancy of age, 179–82; fall of dynasty, 179. Tīmūr Shāh Oghlān, 166. Tiridates, 12. Tiu-ping, 30. Tobolsk, building of, 239. Toghān Khān, 119. Toghrul Beg, parentage, 125; Mas`ūd defeated by, 127; conquests and death, 129–30. Toghrul, Khān of the Keraits, 153. Toghrul III., overthrown by Tekish, 146. Tokhāristān, Yué-Chi settlement in, 18; Persians masters of, 30; occupied by Al-Hakam, 39; incorporated with Transoxiana, 192. Tokhtamish Khān, 171, 183 _note_, 235. =Transcaspia=--boundaries and physical features, 321; productions and industries, 322; administration, 325; taxation, 336; transport, 337; irrigation methods, 331–34; education, 335; drunkenness, 329; statistics of crime, 327–28; epidemics, 330; Turkomans (_see that title_). =Transoxiana=--Yué-Chi powerful in, 17; Ephthalites in, 21; tribes defeated by Bahrām Gūr, 24; Turks masters of, 30; suggested conquest by Anūshirawān, 30 _note_; Kutayba’s expeditions to, 47–55; Turks driven out, 75; revolt of Nīzek, 56; reduced by `Omāra ibn Horaym, 73; Rāfi` master of, 97; governorship held by Sāmānides, 105–13; fall of Sāmānides, 119; Melik Shāh master of, 132; Kara-Khitāys in possession of, 137, 139; inherited by Chaghatāy, 160; Amīr Kazghan master of, 166; Bayān Seldūz and Hāji Birlās rulers of, 167; invaded by Khān of Jatah, 167, 169; Sultan Khalīl in possession of, 174; Ulugh Beg governor of, 175; invasion by `Abd ul-Latīf, 177; Abū Sa`īd master of, 177; condition under Sultan Ahmad, 178; Uzbeg rule in, 184–92; Bāber master of, 186; Tokhāristān and Badakshān incorporated with, 192; Astrakhan dynasty in, 192–203; dialect in, 180 (_see also Bokhārā, Samarkand, etc._). Tsin Chi Hwang-ti, 14. Tufghāj, the, 121. Tūghluk Tīmūr Khān, 167. Tūkā Tīmūr, 183 _note_. Tu-kiué, 29. Tukta, 155. Tūlī, 158. Tulun, 21. Tumen, 29. Tung-nu (Eastern Tartars), war with Hiung-nu, 15; Yué-Chi (_see that title_). Turkān, Queen, 142–45.