Tulun Beg Khanum

Tulun Beg Khanum
Queen of the Golden Horde
Western Half (Blue Horde)
Reign1370–1371
PredecessorʿAbdallāh
SuccessorMuḥammad-Sulṭān
Died1386
SpouseMamai, Tokhtamysh
DynastyBorjigin
FatherBerdi Beg
ReligionIslam

Tulun Beg Khanum (Tūlūn-Bīk Ḫānum; died 1386) was a princess of the Golden Horde at the time of the Great Troubles. Exceptionally for this political formation, she served as monarch and had her name inscribed on coins minted in 1370–1371 at Sarai and Mokhshi.[1] She was the only female monarch of the state.

  1. ^ Počekaev 2010a: 130; idem. 2010b: 59-60. Her reign is often cited as 1370-1372; her coinage was issued during the Hijra years 772 (= AD 26 July 1370-14 July 1371) and 773 (= AD 15 July 1371-2 July 1372). Grigor'ev 1983: 43, agreeing with the identification of Tulun Beg Khanum with "Tovlunbek," the wife of Tokhtamysh executed in 1386, doubted the dating of Tulun Beg Khanum's coins; Sidorenko 2000: 286-287 places her reign in the Hijra year 773.