I browsed on TV and saw a German Goalkeeper in Soccer (football) with the last name of Kahn. I thought of Ghengis Khan.
Now I know Ghengis "spread his seed" around Europe when we was sacking towns in Eastern and Central Europe. What are the chances this is an adopted name from those cultures???
2006-10-31 08:19:21 · 2 answers · asked by Benjamin W 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
no relation
2006-10-31 08:21:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
The furthest the Mongols reached was the Polish city of Legnica (Liegnitz) in 1241. It was there that three Toumans of Mongol invaders (30 000 men) were met in battle by a hastily gathered force of Poles, Silesians, Teutonic knights. The Mongols won the battle and killed the Polish king- but suffered such heavy losses that they had to abandon their invasion and link up with a second invasion force which was raising hell in Hungary.
BTW. Kahn and Khan are not related words
2006-10-31 09:37:45 · answer #2 · answered by cp_scipiom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋