Berke

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Berke Khan
Coinage of Berke, Qrim (Crimea) mint, struck circa AH 662–665 (AD 1263–1267).
Khan of the Golden Horde Western Half (Blue Horde)
Reign	1257–1266
Predecessor	Ulaghchi
Successor	Mengu-Timur
Born	c. 1208 Burkhan Khaldun, Mongolia
Died	1266/1267 (aged 58) Kura River, Azerbaijan
Spouse	Melike Hatun (Daughter of Kayqubad I)
Issue	Tagtagai Khatun Jijek Hatun Urbay Khatun Kehar Khatun
Dynasty	Borjigin
Father	Jochi
Mother	Sultan Khatun (Captured Khwarazmian Princess)
Religion	Islam prev. Tengrism

Berke Khan (died 1266/1267; also Birkai; Turki/Kypchak: برکه خان, Mongolian: Бэрх хан, Tatar: Бәркә хан) was a grandson of Genghis Khan from his son Jochi and a Mongol military commander and ruler of the Golden Horde, a division of the Mongol Empire,^{[note 1]} who effectively consolidated the power of the Blue Horde and White Horde^{[note 2]} from 1257 to 1266. He succeeded his brother Batu Khan of the Blue Horde (West), and was responsible for the first official establishment of Islam in a khanate of the Mongol Empire.^[1] Following the Sack of Baghdad by Hulagu Khan, his cousin and head of the Mongol Ilkhanate based in Persia, he allied with the Egyptian Mamluks against Hulagu. Berke also supported Ariq Böke against Kublai in the Toluid Civil War, but did not intervene militarily in the war because he was occupied in his own war against Hulagu and the Ilkhanate.

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