Toqta

Toqta (died 1312), a son of Mengu-Timur and great-grandson of Batu, was khan of the Golden Horde from 1291 to 1312. Placed on the throne by Nogai after Talabuga's fall, he at first ruled as Nogai's client, then rebelled; defeated in 1297, he crushed Nogai around 1300 and reunited the steppe.

Angered by the Genoese slave trade, he arrested Italian merchants at Sarai and besieged Caffa, whose defenders burned the city in 1308. He died in 1312 preparing a campaign against Russia.