Darughachi, which originally designated officials in the Mongol Empire

Mongol Empire

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 in charge of taxes and administration in a certain province, is the plural form of the Mongolian word darugha

Darugha

Darugha was a territorial subdivision in the Mongol Empire. A darugha was ruled by darughachi.Later the term was used for the province, particularly in Kazan and the Siberian Khanates in the 15th-16th centuries; and finally in the Turkic-populated parts of the Russian Empire in 16th-18th...

. They were sometimes referred to as governors. The term corresponds to the Persian

Persian language

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  داروغه darougheh and the Turkic

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 basqaq (also spelled baskak) and to tal u hua ch'i in Chinese

Chinese language

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In Russian sources, the darughachi were almost always referred to as baskaki. They appear in the thirteenth-century soon after the Mongol Conquest but were withdrawn by 1328 and the Grand Prince of Vladimir (usually the Prince of Moscow) became the khan's tax collector and imperial son in law (kürgen), entrusted with gathering the dan or tribute from the Rus

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' principalities for the Golden Horde

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In the 13th century, chiefs of Mongol darughas were stationed in Vladimir

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 and Baghdad

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After 1921 the word darga (boss) (Khalkha

Khalkha

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 pronouncation of darugha) replaced the aristocratic noyan

Noyan

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 as the term for officials in Mongolia

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