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As generals, each of the two young brothers commanded three tumen, that is, thirty thousand horsemen each, or sixty thousand in all, but not all were battle-ready troops, for an immense train followed the Tatar fighters.
Poland Michener, James 1983
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August I found means to arrest the falsest knaue in this countrey, to wit, the Customer for 22. tumens, and 100. shaughs, (200. shaughs is a tumen.)
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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I, haue receuied 6. tumens in ready money, 200. shaughs is a tumen, reckoning euery shaugh for sixe pence Russe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The Tatars organized their troops on a basis of tens: a unit of horsemen under a lieutenant, a company of a hundred under a captain, a battalion of a thousand under a colonel, and a tumen of ten thousand under a brigadier.
Poland Michener, James 1983
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Campeche; lai Adelantado u kaba yax ɔule lai mani uai ti lum; lae tiob tun yan Campech cuchi ca u katahob patan caix u yabi u thanob tumen batabob tu cahalcahobe tulacal bini patan; tiob te maaniob ti kaknabe yahpulul patanob; lae ca tun binen _y_ in lakob Ah MaCamPech _y_ u yit ɔin Ixkil Ytzam Pech in yahaulil cah Cumkale _y_ in yum yan ti cah
The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 Various 1868
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Cħen lae, ca cahiob uai lae lai culcinaben Tah Nakuk Pech, tumen in yum
The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 Various 1868
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Uaxac ahau: uchci pucħtun ychpaa Mayapan tumen u pach paa, u pach tulum, tumen multepal ych cah Mayapan lal lae.
The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 Various 1868
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Lae 1553 años lai hab ca uli Oidor D. Tomas Lopes uai tal lumil Yucatan lae tali Castella ca uli tu [207-2] chibil tumen ca noh ahau Rey ahtepal de Castilla u yanton tu kab Españolesob uaye, lai haues ca tocabal tumen
The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 Various 1868
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Españolesob; uchci u yox katun tabalob [203-1] Españolesob tumen cah tulacal uai tu cahal Cupule; cauthi katahob Ah Ceh Pech tu cimil Zalibna
The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 Various 1868
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Bai bic ɔaa nen in canante tumen in yumob Ah Naum Pech lic utzcinic utz olal u belil u kahlail uay ti cacab Cħac Xulub Cħen in yax mekthantah lai cah lae capel cacab Chichinica _y_ uay Cħaac Xulub Cħen.
The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 Various 1868
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