Koirijak
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Quyurchuq (Turki/Kypchak: قویورچق; died 1397) was Khan of the Golden Horde from 1395 to 1397. He was appointed by Timur (Tamerlane). Information on his life and reign is very limited.
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Quyurchuq (Turki/Kypchak: قویورچق; died 1397) was Khan of the Golden Horde from 1395 to 1397. He was appointed by Timur (Tamerlane). Information on his life and reign is very limited.
== Ancestry == According to the Muʿizz al-ansāb and Tawārīḫ-i guzīdah-i nuṣrat-nāmah, Quyurchuq was a son of Urus Khan, a descendant of Tuqa-Timur, the son of Jochi, the son of Chinggis Khan. They give the ancestry as Qūyūrčuq, son of Urus Khān, the son of Bādāq, the son of Tīmūr-Khwāja, the son of Tāqtaq, the son of Achiq, the son of Ūrungbāsh (Ūrūng-Tīmūr), the son of Tūqā-Tīmūr, the son of Jūjī.
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