Yaqub Beg
Muhammad Yaqub Bek (Persian: یعقوب بیگ) was a Tajik adventurer who became head of the kingdom of Kashgaria.
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Famous quotes containing the word beg:
“O native country, repossessed by thee!
For, rather than I’ll to the West return,
I’ll beg of thee first here to have mine urn.
Weak I am grown, and must in short time fall;
Give thou my sacred relics burial.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)