He didn't call himself Khan. He called himself Bey (lord), Amir (commander) and Güregen (son-in-law).
It takes a weak king to call himself a king, and it takes a man of exceptional ability to say he isn't one, and is just a commander-lord despite ruling an empire of exceptional size and strength through just sheer will and personal charisma alone.
It takes a weak king to call himself a king, and it takes a man of exceptional ability to say he isn't one, and is just a commander-lord despite ruling an empire of exceptional size and strength through just sheer will and personal charisma alone.
Plus his name sounds like an arap. Probably an arap.