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What is a khagan?

What is a khagan? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A khan of khans, a ruler of a khaganate; (the holder of) an imperial rank used among certain Turkic and Mongolian peoples, equal in status to an emperor.
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After Kublai Khan was proclaimed Khagan at his residence in Xanadu on May 5, 1260, he began to organize the country.
Zuckerman dismisses Pritsak's theory as untenable speculation, and no record of any Khazar khagan fleeing to find refuge among the Rus' exists in contemporaneous sources.
Khagan Kublai dined with a large court every day, and met with many ambassadors and foreign merchants.
Despite political disagreement between contending branches of the family over the office of Khagan, the economic and commercial system continued.
The last Mongol khagan was Ligdan in the early 17th century.
In sparse contemporaneous sources, the leader or leaders of Rus people at this time were referred to by the Old Turkic title Khagan, hence the suggested name of their polity.

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