along the silk route, and cosmopolitan enough to rival the cities of Persia and was as good as it could get in central Asia. His decided to live in the city for at least a prolonged period, a decision which upset the other Moghuls, and many of them left for Moghulistan under the leadership of Yunus' own son Ahmad Alaq. Yunus Khan was also unable to prevent the rise of the Dughlat Mirza Abu Bakr, who had earlier taken Yarkand, Khotan and Kashgar from other members of his family, and defeated Yunus Khan's attempts to quell him. During the Ming Turpan Border Wars he had taken Hami in 1473, but the Chinese evicted him into Turfan. Yunus Khan died in Taskhent in 1487 after a long illness. He was succeeded in Tashkent by his eldest son, Sultan Mahmud Khan, while the Moghuls in the east followed Ahmad Alaq. Paternal lineage Genealogy of Chughatai Khanates In Babr Nama written by Babur, Page 19, Chapter 1; described genealogy of his maternal grandfather Yunas Khan as: In the Tarikh-i Rashidi by Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat: {| class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto 1em auto; page-break-inside:avoid" |+ Genealogy of Younas Khan/Haji Ali according to Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat |- valign="top" | style="border:none;"| Chingiz Khan (known in the west as Genghis Khan) Chaghatai Khan Mutukan Yesü Nto'a Ghiyas-ud-din Baraq Duwa Esen Buqa I | style="border:none"| <ol start="8"> Tughlugh Timur Khizr Khoja Muhammad Khan (Khan of Moghulistan) Shir Ali Oglan Uwais Khan(Vaise Khan) Yunus Khan, the subject of this page Ahmad Alaq</li> </ol> | style="border:none"| Sultan Said Khan Abdurashid Khan Abdul Karim Khan (Yarkand) |} Ancestry Notes References Mirza Muhammad Haidar. The Tarih-i-Rashidi ( A History of the Moghuls of Central Asia). Translated by Edward Denison Ross, edited by N.Elias. London, 1895 M.Kutlukov. About emergence of the Yarkand state''. Almaty,1990 1487 deaths Chagatai khans Uyghurs Year of birth uncertain