In 1226 The Amir Borak, A Kara Khitaian, Who
Was Governor On Behalf Of Jalaluddin Of Khwarizm, Became Independent Under
The Title Of Kutlugh Sultan.
[He died in 1234.] The Mongols allowed this
family to retain the immediate authority, and at the time when
Polo
returned from China the representative of the house was a lady known as
the Padishah Khatun [who reigned from 1291], the wife successively of
the Ilkhans Abaka and Kaikhatu; an ambitious, clever, and masterful woman,
who put her own brother Siyurgutmish to death as a rival, and was herself,
after the decease of Kaikhatu, put to death by her brother's widow and
daughter [1294]. The Dynasty continued, nominally at least, to the reign
of the Ilkhan Khodabanda (1304-13), when it was extinguished. [See Major
Sykes' Persia, chaps, v. and xxiii.]
Kerman was a Nestorian see, under the Metropolitan of Fars. (Ilch.
passim; Weil, III. 454; Lequien, II. 1256.)
["There is some confusion with regard to the names of Kerman both as a
town and as a province or kingdom. We have the names Kerman, Kuwashir,
Bardshir. I should say the original name of the whole country was Kerman,
the ancient Karamania. A province of this was called Kureh-i-Ardeshir,
which, being contracted, became Kuwashir, and is spoken of as the province
in which Ardeshir Babekan, the first Sassanian monarch, resided. A part of
Kureh-i-Ardeshir was called Bardshir, or Bard-i-Ardeshir, now occasionally
Bardsir, and the present city of Kerman was situated at its north-eastern
corner.
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