“TOLL ROADS” IN THE CHINGGISID STATES OF 13th—14th CC.


Abzalov L.F. Gatin M.S. Mustakimov I.A. Pochekaev R.Y.
2024Cimmeria Publishing

Materialy po Arkheologii i Istorii Antichnogo i Srednevekovogo Prichernomorya
2024#2024Issue 16620 - 630 pp.

The article is an analysis of status and activities of the officials who provided safety of trade routes and collected road taxes in the Chinggisid rulers of 13th—14th. There is the first introduction of the Russian translation of ilkhan’s edict (yarlik) on the appointment of the head of tutkauls (rahdars) from the treatise “ Dastur al-katib” written by Muhammad b. Hindushah Nahchivany, the official of Ilkhans, in the second half of the 14th c. Text of the document is supplemented by the interdisciplinary commentary with the comparison of tutkaul’s status in the Mongol Iran with its analogues in other Chinggisid uluses: Golden Horde (Jochi Ulus), Chaghatai Ulus and Yuan Empire as well as with similar institutions in the earlier and later Asian states. The study gives a reason to state that Chinggisids (as well as their predecessors) made efforts to provide comfortable and safe communications for traders in their states, but the latter ones should compensate state expenses by paying the appropriate taxes.

Golden Horde , khans’ yarliks , Khulaguid state , Mongol Empire , road taxes , tax-collectors , trade regulation , Yuan Empire

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Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Levo-Bulachnaya Str., 44, Kazan, 420111, Russian Federation
Samarkand State University named after Sharof Rashidov, Universitetskiy Av., 15, Samarkand, 140104, Uzbekistan
Research Institute for Jochi Ulus Studies, Pushkin Str., 15B, Astana, 010000, Kazakhstan
L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, 2 K. Satpayev Str.,, Astana, 010000, Kazakhstan
HSE University in Saint Petersburg, Kantemirovskaya Str., 3, bd. 1, Saint Petersburg, 194100, Russian Federation

Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University
Samarkand State University named after Sharof Rashidov
Research Institute for Jochi Ulus Studies
L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University
HSE University in Saint Petersburg

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