Kuchlug, the Glossary
Kuchlug (also spelled Küchlüg, Küçlüg, Güčülüg, Quqluq) (Хүчлүг;; d. 1218) was a member of the Naiman tribe who became the last emperor of the Western Liao dynasty (Qara Khitai).[1]
Table of Contents
43 relations: Almaliq, Xinjiang, Altai Mountains, Ata-Malik Juvayni, Özgön, Badakhshan, Balasagun, Battle of Chakirmaut, Billet, Buddhism, Bukhara, Buyruq khan, Emperor of China, Genghis Khan, History of Yuan, Imam, Irtysh, Jamukha, Jebe, Kara-Khanid Khanate, Khan (title), Khwarazmian Empire, Madrasa, Mongol campaigns in Central Asia, Mongol conquest of the Qara Khitai, Mongol Empire, Mongols, Muhammad II of Khwarazm, Naimans, Nestorianism, Pamir Mountains, Qara Khitai, Qutuqtu, Samarkand, Syr Darya, Taishang Huang, Taraz, Tayang Khan, Tolui, Transoxiana, Wakhan, Yelü, Yelü Zhilugu, Zhetysu.
- 12th-century Christians
- 13th-century Buddhists
- 13th-century Chinese monarchs
- Buddhist monarchs
- Converts to Buddhism from Christianity
- Emperors of Qara Khitai
- Former Church of the East Christians
- Mongolian Buddhist monarchs
Almaliq, Xinjiang
Almaliq (ئالمالىق; 里|p.
See Kuchlug and Almaliq, Xinjiang
Altai Mountains
The Altai Mountains, also spelled Altay Mountains, are a mountain range in Central Asia and Eastern Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan converge, and where the rivers Irtysh and Ob have their headwaters.
See Kuchlug and Altai Mountains
Ata-Malik Juvayni
Atâ-Malek Juvayni (عطاملک جوینی; 1226–1283), in full, Ala al-Din Ata-ullah (علاءالدین عطاءالله), was a Persian historian and an official of the Mongol state who wrote an account of the Mongol Empire entitled Tarikh-i Jahangushay ("History of the World Conqueror").
See Kuchlug and Ata-Malik Juvayni
Özgön
Özgön (Өзгөн) or Uzgen (Узген) (from Sogdian Uzkand ("city of the ''Uz'' ") is a town in Osh Region, Kyrgyzstan. It is a city of district significance and the seat of Özgön District. Its population was 62,802 in 2021.
Badakhshan
Badakhshan is a historical region comprising parts of modern-day north-eastern Afghanistan, eastern Tajikistan, and Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County in China.
Balasagun
Balasagun (or Balasagyn) was an ancient Sogdian city in modern-day Kyrgyzstan, located in the Chüy Valley between Bishkek and the Issyk-Kul lake.
Battle of Chakirmaut
The Battle of Chakirmaut was the concluding battle of Genghis Khan's unification of the Mongol tribes.
See Kuchlug and Battle of Chakirmaut
Billet
A billet is a living-quarters to which a soldier is assigned to sleep.
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Bukhara
Bukhara (Uzbek; بخارا) is the seventh-largest city in Uzbekistan by population, with 280,187 residents.
Buyruq khan
Buyruq khan — was the younger son of Inanch Bilge and a brother of Tayang khan.
Emperor of China
Throughout Chinese history, "Emperor" was the superlative title held by the monarchs who ruled various imperial dynasties or Chinese empires.
See Kuchlug and Emperor of China
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan (born Temüjin; August 1227), also known as Chinggis Khan, was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire. Kuchlug and Genghis Khan are 13th-century Chinese monarchs.
History of Yuan
The History of Yuan, also known as the Yuanshi, is one of the official Chinese historical works known as the Twenty-Four Histories of China.
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Imam
Imam (إمام,;: أئمة) is an Islamic leadership position.
See Kuchlug and Imam
Irtysh
The Irtysh is a river in Russia, China, and Kazakhstan.
Jamukha
Jamukha (Жамуха) was a Mongol military and political leader and the chief rival to Temüjin (later Genghis Khan) in the unification of the Mongol tribes.
Jebe
Jebe (or Jebei, Зэв, pronounced as Zev; birth name: Jirqo'adai (Modern Mongolian: Zurgaadai), Зургаадай) (death: approximately 1224) was one of the most prominent Noyans (generals) of Genghis Khan.
See Kuchlug and Jebe
Kara-Khanid Khanate
The Kara-Khanid Khanate, also known as the Karakhanids, Qarakhanids, Ilek Khanids or the Afrasiabids, was a Karluk Turkic khanate that ruled Central Asia from the 9th to the early 13th century.
See Kuchlug and Kara-Khanid Khanate
Khan (title)
Khan is a historic Mongolic and Turkic title originating among nomadic tribes in the Central and Eastern Eurasian Steppe to refer to a king.
Khwarazmian Empire
The Khwarazmian Empire, also called the Empire of the Khwarazmshahs or simply Khwarazm, was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Muslim empire of Turkic mamluk origin.
See Kuchlug and Khwarazmian Empire
Madrasa
Madrasa (also,; Arabic: مدرسة, pl. مدارس), sometimes transliterated as madrasah or madrassa, is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary education or higher learning.
Mongol campaigns in Central Asia
Mongol campaigns in Central Asia occurred after the unification of the Mongol and Turkic tribes on the Mongolian plateau in 1206.
See Kuchlug and Mongol campaigns in Central Asia
Mongol conquest of the Qara Khitai
The Mongol Empire conquered the Qara Khitai (Western Liao Empire) in the year 1218 AD.
See Kuchlug and Mongol conquest of the Qara Khitai
Mongol Empire
The Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest contiguous empire in history.
Mongols
The Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (majority in Inner Mongolia), as well as Buryatia and Kalmykia of Russia.
Muhammad II of Khwarazm
'Alā' al-Din Muhammad (Persian: علاءالدین محمد خوارزمشاه; full name: Ala ad-Dunya wa ad-Din Abul-Fath Muhammad Sanjar ibn Tekish) was the Shah of the Khwarazmian Empire from 1200 to 1220.
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Naimans
The Naiman (eight;; Naiman; Naiman Nayman) were a medieval tribe originating in the territory of modern Western Mongolia (possibly during the time of the Uyghur Khaganate), and are one of the tribes of modern Mongols and in the middle juz of the Kazakh nation.
Nestorianism
Nestorianism is a term used in Christian theology and Church history to refer to several mutually related but doctrinarily distinct sets of teachings.
Pamir Mountains
The Pamir Mountains are a range of mountains between Central Asia and South Asia.
See Kuchlug and Pamir Mountains
Qara Khitai
The Qara Khitai, or Kara Khitai, also known as the Western Liao, officially the Great Liao, was a dynastic regime based in Central Asia ruled by the Yelü clan of the Khitan people.
Qutuqtu
Qutuqtu was the second son of Tolui and Lingqun Khatun (daughter of Kuchlug).
Samarkand
Samarkand or Samarqand (Uzbek and Tajik: Самарқанд / Samarqand) is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia.
Syr Darya
The Syr Darya, historically known as the Jaxartes (Ἰαξάρτης), is a river in Central Asia.
Taishang Huang
In Chinese history, a Taishang Huang or Taishang Huangdi is an honorific and institution of a retired emperor.
See Kuchlug and Taishang Huang
Taraz
Taraz (Тараз; also historically known as Talas) is a city and the administrative center of Jambyl Region in Kazakhstan, located on the Talas (Taraz) River in the south of the country near the border with Kyrgyzstan. It had a population of 330,100 as of the 1999 census, up 9% from 1989, making it one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, after Astana and Turkistan.
Tayang Khan
Tayang Khan — was a khan of the Naimans.
Tolui
Tolui (–1232) was the youngest son of Genghis Khan and Börte. Kuchlug and Tolui are 13th-century Chinese monarchs.
Transoxiana
Transoxiana or Transoxania is the Latin name for the region and civilization located in lower Central Asia roughly corresponding to modern-day eastern Uzbekistan, western Tajikistan, parts of southern Kazakhstan, parts of Turkmenistan and southern Kyrgyzstan.
Wakhan
Wakhan, or "the Wakhan" (also spelt Vakhan; Persian and واخان, Vâxân and Wāxān respectively; Вахон, Vaxon), is a rugged, mountainous part of the Pamir, Hindu Kush and Karakoram regions of Afghanistan.
Yelü
The Yelü clan (Khitan:, spelled, pronounced Yeruuld), alternatively rendered as Yila or Yarud, was a prominent family of ethnic Khitan origin in the history of China.
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Yelü Zhilugu
Yelü Zhilugu was the third emperor of the Western Liao dynasty, ruling from 1177 to 1211. Kuchlug and Yelü Zhilugu are 13th-century Chinese monarchs and emperors of Qara Khitai.
Zhetysu
Zhetysu (Jetısu,; meaning "seven rivers" or more literally, "seven waters") or Jeti-Suu (Жети-Суу|Jeti-Suu), also transcribed Zhetisu, Jetisuw, Jetysu, Jeti-su or Jity-su,, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Джетысу etc.
See also
12th-century Christians
- Chronological list of saints and blesseds in the 12th century
- Guilielmus Peregrinus
- Guy of Hauteville
- Kuchlug
- Margaret of Beverley
- Saxo Grammaticus
13th-century Buddhists
- Abaqa Khan
- Chabi
- Darmabala
- Dōgen
- Enni
- Gyōi
- Hulegu Khan
- Ippen
- Jayavarman VII
- Ji-shu
- Jien
- Kuchlug
- Kujō Ninshi
- Kujō Shunshi
- Nichiren
- Ninshō
- Shinran
13th-century Chinese monarchs
- Ögedei Khan
- Emperor Aizong of Jin
- Emperor Duanzong
- Emperor Duzong
- Emperor Gong of Song
- Emperor Huanzong of Western Xia
- Emperor Lizong
- Emperor Mo of Jin
- Emperor Mo of Western Xia
- Emperor Ningzong
- Emperor Shenzong of Western Xia
- Emperor Xiangzong of Western Xia
- Emperor Xianzong of Western Xia
- Emperor Xuanzong of Jin
- Emperor Zhangzong of Jin
- Güyük Khan
- Genghis Khan
- Kublai Khan
- Kuchlug
- Möngke Khan
- Puxian Wannu
- Temür Khan
- Tolui
- Wanyan Yongji
- Yelü Zhilugu
- Zhao Bing
Buddhist monarchs
- Ajatashatru
- Amir Suri
- Bhuvan Mohan Roy
- Bhuvanaikabahu VI of Kotte
- Buddhist kingship
- Chueang
- Gyalsey Tenzin Rabgye
- Harish Chandra (raja)
- Jayabahu I of Polonnaruwa
- Jigme Dorji Wangchuck
- Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
- Jigme Singye Wangchuck
- Jigme Wangchuck
- Kalindi (rani)
- Kertanegara of Singhasari
- Kuchlug
- Lha of Tibet
- Lusai
- Mé Aktsom
- Mangsong Mangtsen
- Muné Tsenpo
- Narai
- Niri Qaghan
- Palden Thondup Namgyal
- Parakramabahu VI of Kotte
- Ralpacan
- Sadnalegs
- Songtsen Gampo
- Tardush Shad
- Taspar Qaghan
- Thai monarchs
- Tong Yabghu Qaghan
- Tridu Songtsen
- Trisong Detsen
- Ugyen Wangchuck
- Umze Peljor
- Vijayabahu I of Polonnaruwa
- Vimaladharmasuriya I of Kandy
- Yeshe-Ö
Converts to Buddhism from Christianity
- Öljaitü
- Ajahn Candasiri
- Alan Watts
- Alfred Bloom (Buddhist)
- Aliana Lohan
- Ananda Samarakoon
- Ba Maw
- Betty Faria
- Bhante Vimalaramsi
- Carola Roloff
- Catherine Spaak
- Chapman To
- Christine Rankin
- E. Gene Smith
- Edmund Rowland Gooneratne
- Fabian Fucan
- George Lennon
- Herman Vetterling
- James Hla Kyaw
- Jennifer Beals
- Johnny Anfone
- Josephine Decker
- Karl Tõnisson
- Kuchlug
- Kumar Sangakkara
- Lafcadio Hearn
- List of converts to Buddhism from Christianity
- P Moe Nin
- Roberto Baggio
- Teresa Teng
- Thet Mon Myint
- Vimaladharmasuriya I of Kandy
- Willie Davis (baseball)
- Ye Lwin (musician)
- Ōmura Yoshiaki
Emperors of Qara Khitai
- Kuchlug
- Yelü Dashi
- Yelü Pusuwan
- Yelü Yilie
- Yelü Zhilugu
Former Church of the East Christians
Mongolian Buddhist monarchs
- Abaqa Khan
- Abtai Sain Khan
- Altan Khan
- Arghun
- Bogd Khan
- Gaykhatu
- Gegeen Khan
- Godan Khan
- Hulegu Khan
- Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür
- Külüg Khan
- Khutughtu Khan Kusala
- Kublai Khan
- Kuchlug
- Rinchinbal Khan
- Tümen Zasagt Khan
- Temür Khan
- Toghon Temür
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuchlug
Also known as Kushluk, Quchulü.