From BBC News:
Mongolia has moved to register the name of its legendary conqueror Genghis Khan as a commercial brand.
The parliament in Ulan Bator is debating a law that would allow the Mongolian government to license the use of his name and image.
However, Mongolians are sensitive about his appropriation by foreign companies. “Foreigners are attempting to use the Genghis Khan name”, one parliamentarian said, claiming that businesses in Russia, China and Kazakhstan were all portraying him as a native of their countries. [Full Text]
– Also Genghis Khan a Prolific Lover, DNA Data Implies by National Geographic News:
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An international group of geneticists studying Y-chromosome data have found that nearly 8 percent of the men living in the region of the former Mongol empire carry y-chromosomes that are nearly identical. That translates to 0.5 percent of the male population in the world, or roughly 16 million descendants living today.
Khan’s eldest son, Tushi, is reported to have had 40 sons. Documents written during or just after Khan’s reign say that after a conquest, looting, pillaging, and rape were the spoils of war for all soldiers, but that Khan got first pick of the beautiful women. His grandson, Kubilai Khan, who established the Yuan Dynasty in China, had 22 legitimate sons, and was reported to have added 30 virgins to his harem each year.
– People’s Daily Online’s China Plans New Investment to Expand Genghis Khan Temple (2002)
