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    Hellpuppy unleashed Member Subedei's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Antagonist

    I seem to recall being told that "Genghis Khan" (or whatever the correct spelling is) translates as "The Great Khan", but don't quote me on that because I know so little about the Mongols it's not funny.

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    In "Mongolian2German2English" translation i ' d come up with "Khan of Khans" or as you said "The Great Khan", but nobody is actually able to say what it reallyreallyreally ment....
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    That's a problem with a lot of language translations. We call the rulers of the Rus either great princes or grand princes or grand dukes; but in reality, Великий князь,which is usually transliterated as velikiy knyaz, has no direct translation into English. Grand duke and the rest are just approximations of a title which is more akin to king than to prince, and yet not quite either.
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    There was a woman too: Katharina die Große (that is the German name for her. Although she was Russian csar, she was born as a German princess)

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