darughachi
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An official in the Mongol Empire responsible for the administration and taxation of a specific province or territory. They were essentially governors appointed by the Mongol Khan.
Example Sentences
- "In December, 1231, the Korean capital Kaesong, northwest of the modern Seoul, had been taken by the Mongols, who placed the country under their protectorate with seventy-two darughachi to run it; but in the following year all these Mongol residents had been massacred by the order of the king of Korea, Ko-tjong, who in July, 1232, took refuge on the little island of Kanghwa, west of Seoul."