Köchü

Khüchü (or Köchü, Konchi, Konichi) was the Khan of the White Horde between c.1280-1302. He was the eldest son of Sartaqtay and Qujiyan of the Qongirat and a grandson of Orda Khan.

Marco Polo says Köchü had a vast number of people, but he carried on no war with anybody, and his people lived in great tranquility. Since 1280 he sent friendly letter to Kublai Khan, and the Yuan dynasty rewarded him a large amount of grains and other valuable things of China in turn for his alliance. According to Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, he also kept a very friendly relationship with his relatives, the Ilkhanate, in Persia. According to Rashid al-Din Hamadani, Köchü allied with Kaidu.

Köchü possessed the territory of Ghazna and Bamiyan under the suzerainty of either the Chagatayid Khans or the Ilkhan. However, he proved his alliance and refused when Baraq, ruler of Chagatai Khanate, demanded him to give up the authority of those areas before his attack on Iran in 1269.

He was an influential khan. When the Borjigin princes, who operated on Kublai's behalf in Central Asia and later on rebelled, fought against each other, they appealed to Köchü. In c.1302 he died because of his overweight.

Kōchō

Kōchō (弘長) was a Japanese era name (年号,, nengō,, lit. "year name") after Bun'ō and before Bun'ei. This period spanned the years from February 1261 to February 1264. The reigning emperor was Kameyama-tennō (亀山天皇).

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Arnold Käch

Arnold Käch (born February 4, 1914 – November 24, 1998) was a Swiss military officer, skier, ski official and writer.

Biography

Käch was born in Berne. His father was the engineer Arnold Otto Käch, and his mother was Berta Käch, née Scholl. He studied jurisprudence at the universities of Lausanne, Bern, Paris, in the United States and in Canada after 1933, and got his license to practice law in 1939. During his years of studies he was leader in the rank of a Leutnant of the national Olympic military patrol team in 1936 which placed seventh. On January 9, 1937 he won the first Citadin race in Mürren From 1939 to 1940 he worked as a lawyer at the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, afterwards as assistant of the Swiss military- and air attaché in Berlin, and after 1943 as military- und air attaché in Stockholm, Oslo and Kopenhagen. Meanwhile he married Louisa Hendrika Jeannette Wagemans in 1941. From July 1,1947 to 1957 he was the first direktor of the Eidgenössische Turn- und Sportschule (ETS) Magglingen as an officer, General Staff, and was engaged in its increasing to today's federal office of sports BASPO. From 1951 to the middle of 1961 he was secretary general of the International Ski Federation. For his publishing work he was awarded with the Sports Award for artists in 1957. From 1957 to 1979 he was director of the Federal Military Administration, was advanced to the rank of Brigadier in 1957, and served additionally as the commander of Border Brigade 11 from 1967 to 1972.