Negudar

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Negudar was a Mongol general under Berke, and a Golden Horde Noyan. With many other Golden Horde generals, he embraced Islam in the late 1200's and took the Muslim name of Ahmad Khan.[1]

Before the conflicts between Berke and Hulegu, Negudar fostered peace in Eastern Khorasan and its surrounding areas in Central Asia. When war hostilities broke out between Berke and Hulegu, Negudar assumed control over a sizeable portion of Berke's forces[2] primarily in Ghazni and eastern Afghanistan.

Negudar and his forces ultimately settled in various parts of modern day Afghanistan[3]including Kabul[4] and Herat. Today, Nikudari, an archaic form of the Mongolian language extinct in Mongolia, is preserved in Afghanistan and named after Negudar.

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  1. ^ The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful, pg. 226
  2. ^ Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran: A Persian Renaissance By George Lane, pg 77
  3. ^ Shiraz in the Age of Hafez: The Glory of a Medieval Persian City By John W. Limbert, pg.145
  4. ^ India as Seen by Babur, AD 1504-1530 By R. Nath, pg. 23