Von Berke

Berke ( hun. nagy-barkóczi Berke; ger. Berke von Nagy-Barkócz) family was an old hungarian noble family in the Slovene March (Vas County, nowadays: Prekmurje, Slovenia). They were landowners and bankers.

On 10. December 1609 Berke Ambrosius was elevated into nobility, however older documents shows that this might be only a confiration of nobility, because in years 1417 and 1427 we can find mentions of Peter de Berke and Berke Jakab, who were homo regius (kiraly ember). In 1610 the family was written into Vas County noble register. In 1690 king Leopold I. donated place Nagy-Barkócz to Berke Peter. At the end of the 19th century they have established a bank in Vas County. Balaž Berke, Ferenc Berke and Janos Berke, members of the Berke family were Slovenian writers (they wrote in Vend dialect). Berke József was also a member of Hungarian parliament from 1869–1872, then Count Szápáry has won the elections. But 3 years later Berke has won again 1875-1878 and 1878-1881.

Berke

Berke Khan (died 1266) (also Birkai; Mongolian: Бэрх хаан, Tatar: Бәркә хан) was the ruler of the Golden Horde (division of the Mongol Empire) who effectively consolidated the power of the Blue Horde and White Hordes from 1257 to 1266. He succeeded his brother Batu Khan of the Blue Horde (West) and was responsible for the first official establishment of Islam in a khanate of the Mongol Empire. He allied with the Egyptian Mamluks against another Mongol khanate based in Persia, the Ilkhanate. Berke supported Ariq Böke in the Toluid Civil War, but did not intervene militarily in the war.

Name

Berke is a name used by both Turkic peoples and Mongols. In the Mongolian language "Berkh" literally means "strong". "Berk" also has many meanings like "solid", "powerful", and "in power" in the Old Turkic language.

Background

Berke was one of the sons of Jochi, the eldest son of Genghis Khan. Berke was present, with several of his brothers, at the inauguration of his uncle Ögedei as Great Khan in 1229.

Berke (name)

Berke Khan (died 1266) was the ruler of the Golden Horde.

People with the surname Berke