Nomadic empire, the Glossary

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1. 244 relations: Abaoji, Afghanistan, Altai Republic, Altan Khan of the Khalkha, Anania Shirakatsi, Anatolia, Animal husbandry, Asabiyyah, Ashkharhatsuyts, Asia, Asparuh of Bulgaria, Attila, Azerbaijan, Bactria, Bars Bek, Battle of Dandanaqan, Bavaria, Bedouin, Black Sea, Book of Wei, Bow and arrow, Brill Publishers, Bulgar language, Bulgarians, Bulgars, Bumin Qaghan, Buryatia, Byzantine Empire, Capital city, Caucasus, Cavalry, Central Asia, Chagatai Khanate, Chaghri Beg, China, Chinese historiography, Chronograph of 354, Cimmerians, Classic of Mountains and Seas, Classical antiquity, Columbia Encyclopedia, Columbia University Press, Commerce, Communication, Confederation, Conquest dynasty, Cultural assimilation, Dengizich, Dmitri Bondarenko, Donghu people, ... Expand index (194 more) »

2. Empires
3. Inner Asia
4. Nomadic empires

Abaoji

Abaoji (872–6 September 926), posthumously known by his temple name as the Emperor Taizu of Liao, was a Khitan leader and the founding emperor of the Liao dynasty of China, ruling from 916 to 926.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Altai Republic

The Altai Republic (Altay Respublika; Respublika Altay), also known as Gorno-Altai Republic, and colloquially, and primarily referred to in Russian to distinguish from the neighbouring Altai Krai as the Gornyi Altai (lit), is a republic of Russia located in southern Siberia.

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Altan Khan of the Khalkha

The Altan Khans (lit. Golden Khan) ruled north-western Mongolia from about 1609 to 1691 at the latest.

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Anania Shirakatsi

Anania Shirakatsi (Անանիա Շիրակացի,, anglicized: Ananias of Shirak) was a 7th-century Armenian polymath and natural philosopher, author of extant works covering mathematics, astronomy, geography, chronology, and other fields.

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Anatolia

Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.

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Animal husbandry

Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.

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Asabiyyah

'Asabiyyah (ʿaṣabiyya, also 'asabiyya, 'group feeling' or 'social cohesion') is a concept of social solidarity with an emphasis on unity, group consciousness, and a sense of shared purpose and social cohesion, originally used in the context of tribalism and clanism.

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Ashkharhatsuyts

Ashkharhatsuyts, often translated as Geography in English sources, is an early medieval Armenian geography attributed to Anania Shirakatsi.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Asparuh of Bulgaria

Asparuh (also Ispor; Asparuh or (rarely) Isperih) was а ruler of Bulgars in the second half of the 7th century and is credited with the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire in 681.

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Attila

Attila, frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death, in early 453.

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Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Bactria

Bactria (Bactrian: βαχλο, Bakhlo), or Bactriana, was an ancient Iranian civilization in Central Asia based in the area south of the Oxus River (modern Amu Darya) and north of the mountains of the Hindu Kush, an area within the north of modern Afghanistan. Nomadic empire and Bactria are history of Central Asia.

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Bars Bek

Bars Bek (Old Turkic: 𐰉𐰺𐰽:𐰋𐰏;;; 637–710/711) or Inanch Alp Bilge, was the first khagan of the Yenisei Kyrgyz Khaganate.

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Battle of Dandanaqan

The Battle of Dandanaqan (نبرد دندانقان) was fought in 1040 between the Seljuq Turkmens and the Ghaznavid Empire near the city of Merv (now in Turkmenistan).

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Bedouin

The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu (singular) are pastorally nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia (Iraq). Nomadic empire and Bedouin are nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Black Sea

The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.

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Book of Wei

The Book of Wei, also known by its Chinese name as the Wei Shu, is a classic Chinese historical text compiled by Wei Shou from 551 to 554, and is an important text describing the history of the Northern Wei and Eastern Wei from 386 to 550.

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Bow and arrow

The bow and arrow is a ranged weapon system consisting of an elastic launching device (bow) and long-shafted projectiles (arrows).

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Brill Publishers

Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.

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Bulgar language

Bulgar (also known as Bulghar, Bolgar, or Bolghar) is an extinct Oghuric Turkic language spoken by the Bulgars.

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Bulgarians

Bulgarians (bŭlgari) are a nation and South Slavic ethnic group native to Bulgaria and its neighbouring region, who share a common Bulgarian ancestry, culture, history and language.

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Bulgars

The Bulgars (also Bulghars, Bulgari, Bolgars, Bolghars, Bolgari, Proto-Bulgarians) were Turkic semi-nomadic warrior tribes that flourished in the Pontic–Caspian steppe and the Volga region between the 5th and 7th centuries.

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Bumin Qaghan

Bumin Qaghan (Bumïn qaγan, also known as Illig Qaghan (Chinese: 伊利可汗, Pinyin: Yīlì Kèhán, Wade–Giles: i-li k'o-han) or Yamï Qaghan (Yаmï qaγan, died 552 AD) was the founder of the Turkic Khaganate. He was the eldest son of Ashina Tuwu (吐務 / 吐务).

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Buryatia

Buryatia (Buryatiya; Buryaad Ulas), officially the Republic of Buryatia, is a republic of Russia located in the Russian Far East.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Nomadic empire and Byzantine Empire are former empires.

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Capital city

A capital city or just capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational division, usually as its seat of the government.

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Caucasus

The Caucasus or Caucasia, is a transcontinental region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia.

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Cavalry

Historically, cavalry (from the French word cavalerie, itself derived from cheval meaning "horse") are soldiers or warriors who fight mounted on horseback.

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Central Asia

Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.

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Chagatai Khanate

The Chagatai Khanate, or Chagatai Ulus was a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate that comprised the lands ruled by Chagatai Khan, second son of Genghis Khan, and his descendants and successors.

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Chaghri Beg

Abu Suleiman Dawud Chaghri Beg ibn Mikail, widely known simply as Chaghri Beg (989–1060), Da'ud b. Mika'il b. Saljuq, also spelled Chaghri, was the co-ruler of the early Seljuk Empire.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chinese historiography

Chinese historiography is the study of the techniques and sources used by historians to develop the recorded history of China.

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Chronograph of 354

The Chronograph, Chronography, or Calendar of 354 is a compilation of chronological and calendrical texts produced in 354 AD for a wealthy Roman Christian named Valentinus by the calligrapher and illustrator Furius Dionysius Filocalus.

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Cimmerians

The Cimmerians were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, part of whom subsequently migrated into West Asia. Nomadic empire and Cimmerians are Iranian nomads and nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Classic of Mountains and Seas

The Classic of Mountains and Seas, also known as Shanhai jing, formerly romanized as the Shan-hai Ching, is a Chinese classic text and a compilation of mythic geography and beasts.

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Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.

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Columbia Encyclopedia

The Columbia Encyclopedia is a one-volume encyclopedia produced by Columbia University Press and, in the last edition, sold by the Gale Group.

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Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.

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Commerce

Commerce is the large-scale organized system of activities, functions, procedures and institutions that directly or indirectly contribute to the smooth, unhindered distribution and transfer of goods and services on a substantial scale and at the right time, place, quantity, quality and price through various channels from the original producers to the final consumers within local, regional, national or international economies.

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Communication

Communication is commonly defined as the transmission of information.

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Confederation

A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states or communities united for purposes of common action.

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Conquest dynasty

A conquest dynasty in the history of China refers to a Chinese dynasty established by non-Han ethnicities which ruled parts or all of China proper, the traditional heartland of the Han people, and whose rulers may or may not have fully assimilated into the dominant Han culture. Nomadic empire and conquest dynasty are empires.

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Cultural assimilation

Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilates the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.

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Dengizich

Dengizich (died in 469), was a Hunnic ruler and son of Attila.

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Dmitri Bondarenko

Dmitri Mikhailovich Bondarenko (a; born June 9, 1968) is a Russian anthropologist, historian, and Africanist.

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Donghu people

Donghu (IPA) was a tribal confederation of "Hu" (胡) nomadic people that was first recorded from the 7th century BCE and was taken over by the Xiongnu in 150 BCE.

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Dzungar Khanate

The Dzungar Khanate, also written as the Zunghar Khanate or Junggar Khanate, was an Inner Asian khanate of Oirat Mongol origin. Nomadic empire and Dzungar Khanate are former empires, Inner Asia and nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Dzungar people

The Dzungar people (also written as Zunghar or Junggar; from the Mongolian words, meaning 'left hand') are the many Mongol Oirat tribes who formed and maintained the Dzungar Khanate in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Early modern period

The early modern period is a historical period that is part of the modern period based primarily on the history of Europe and the broader concept of modernity.

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Early Slavs

The early Slavs were speakers of Indo-European dialects who lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately from the 5th to the 10th centuries AD) in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe and established the foundations for the Slavic nations through the Slavic states of the Early and High Middle Ages.

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East Asia

East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.

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Eastern Anatolia Region

The Eastern Anatolia Region (Doğu Anadolu Bölgesi) is a geographical region of Turkey.

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Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.

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Eastern Iranian languages

The Eastern Iranian languages are a subgroup of the Iranian languages, having emerged during the Middle Iranian era (4th century BC to 9th century AD).

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Eastern Turkic Khaganate

The Eastern Turkic Khaganate was a Turkic khaganate formed as a result of the internecine wars in the beginning of the 7th century (AD 581–603) after the First Turkic Khaganate (founded in the 6th century in the Mongolian Plateau by the Ashina clan) had splintered into two polities – one in the east and the other in the west. Nomadic empire and Eastern Turkic Khaganate are former empires.

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Eastern world

The Eastern world, also known as the East or historically the Orient, is an umbrella term for various cultures or social structures, nations and philosophical systems, which vary depending on the context.

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Empire

An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". Nomadic empire and empire are empires.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. is the company known for publishing the Encyclopædia Britannica, the world's oldest continuously published encyclopaedia.

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Eurasia

Eurasia is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.

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Eurasian nomads

The Eurasian nomads were groups of nomadic peoples living throughout the Eurasian Steppe, who are largely known from frontier historical sources from Europe and Asia. Nomadic empire and Eurasian nomads are nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Eurasian Steppe

The Eurasian Steppe, also called the Great Steppe or The Steppes, is the vast steppe ecoregion of Eurasia in the temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands biome. Nomadic empire and Eurasian Steppe are nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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First Bulgarian Empire

The First Bulgarian Empire (blŭgarĭsko tsěsarǐstvije; Първо българско царство) was a medieval state that existed in Southeastern Europe between the 7th and 11th centuries AD. It was founded in 680–681 after part of the Bulgars, led by Asparuh, moved south to the northeastern Balkans. Nomadic empire and First Bulgarian Empire are former empires.

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First Turkic Khaganate

The First Turkic Khaganate, also referred to as the First Turkic Empire, Göktürk Khaganate, or the Turkic Khaganate (𐰃𐰓𐰃𐰆𐰴𐰽𐰔:𐰰𐰇𐰚:𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰), was a Turkic khaganate established by the Ashina clan of the Göktürks in medieval Inner Asia under the leadership of Bumin Qaghan (d. Nomadic empire and First Turkic Khaganate are former empires and nomadic empires.

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Gansu

Gansu is an inland province in Northwestern China. Nomadic empire and Gansu are Inner Asia.

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Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan (born Temüjin; August 1227), also known as Chinggis Khan, was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire.

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Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Ghaznavids

The Ghaznavid dynasty (غزنویان Ġaznaviyān) or the Ghaznavid Empire was a Persianate Muslim dynasty and empire of Turkic mamluk origin, ruling at its greatest extent from the Oxus to the Indus Valley from 977 to 1186.

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Golden Horde

The Golden Horde, self-designated as Ulug Ulus (in Kipchak Turkic), was originally a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol Empire. Nomadic empire and Golden Horde are nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Gord (archaeology)

A gord is a medieval Slavonic fortified settlement, usually built on strategic sites such as hilltops, riverbanks, lake islets or peninsulas between the 6th and 12th centuries in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China (literally "ten thousand ''li'' long wall") is a series of fortifications that were built across the historical northern borders of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection against various nomadic groups from the Eurasian Steppe.

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Haixi Jurchens

The Haixi Jurchens were a grouping of the Jurchens as identified by the Chinese of the Ming dynasty.

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Heqin

Heqin, also known as marriage alliance, refers to the historical practice of Chinese monarchs marrying princesses—usually members of minor branches of the ruling family—to rulers of neighboring states.

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History of Central Asia

The history of Central Asia concerns the history of the various peoples that have inhabited Central Asia.

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History of China

The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area.

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Horse

The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal.

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Horses in East Asian warfare

Horses in East Asian warfare are inextricably linked with the strategic and tactical evolution of armed conflict throughout the course of East Asian military history.

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Huns

The Huns were a nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the 4th and 6th centuries AD. Nomadic empire and Huns are nomadic empires and nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Hyun Jin Kim

Hyun Jin Kim (born 1982) is an Australian academic, scholar and author.

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Iazyges

The Iazyges were an ancient Sarmatian tribe that traveled westward in 200BC from Central Asia to the steppes of modern Ukraine. Nomadic empire and Iazyges are Iranian nomads.

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Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Khaldun (أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي.,, Arabic:; 27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732–808 AH) was an Arab sociologist, philosopher, and historian widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, and considered by many to be the father of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography studies.

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Idel-Ural

Idel-Ural (translit, Идель-Урал), literally Volga-Ural, is a historical region in Eastern Europe, in what is today Russia.

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Ilkhanate

The Ilkhanate or Il-khanate, ruled by the Il-Khans or Ilkhanids (translit), and known to the Mongols as Hülegü Ulus, was a Mongol khanate founded in the southwestern territories of the Mongol Empire.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Indo-European languages

The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.

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Inner Asia

Inner Asia refers to the northern and landlocked regions spanning North, Central and East Asia.

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Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Nomadic empire and Inner Mongolia are Inner Asia.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Iranian peoples

The Iranian peoples or Iranic peoples are a diverse grouping of peoples who are identified by their usage of the Iranian languages (branch of the Indo-European languages) and other cultural similarities.

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Irkutsk Oblast

Irkutsk Oblast (Irkutskaya oblastʹ; Erkhüü mojo) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers.

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Janissary

A janissary (yeŋiçeri) was a member of the elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops.

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Jin dynasty (1115–1234)

The Jin dynasty, officially known as the Great Jin, was an imperial dynasty of China that existed between 1115 and 1234 founded by Emperor Taizu (first).

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Joseon

Joseon, officially Great Joseon State, was a dynastic kingdom of Korea that existed for 505 years.

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Jurchen people

Jurchen (Manchu: Jušen,; 女真, Nǚzhēn) is a term used to collectively describe a number of East Asian Tungusic-speaking people.

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Kambojas

The Kambojas were a southeastern Iranian people who inhabited the northeastern most part of the territory populated by Iranian tribes, which bordered the Indian lands.

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Kanishka

Kanishka I, also known as Kanishka the Great, was an emperor of the Kushan dynasty, under whose reign (–150 CE) the empire reached its zenith.

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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.

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Kashmir

Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.

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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.

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Khanate

A khanate or khaganate is a type of historic polity ruled by a khan, khagan, khatun, or khanum.

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Khazars

The Khazars were a nomadic Turkic people that, in the late 6th-century CE, established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, and Kazakhstan. Nomadic empire and Khazars are nomadic empires and nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Kingdom of Khotan

The Kingdom of Khotan was an ancient Buddhist Saka kingdom located on the branch of the Silk Road that ran along the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert in the Tarim Basin (modern-day Xinjiang, China).

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Kushan Empire

The Kushan Empire (– AD) was a syncretic empire formed by the Yuezhi in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st century. Nomadic empire and Kushan Empire are Iranian nomads, nomadic empires and nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Kutlug I Bilge Kagan

Kutlug I Bilge Boyla Khagan, also known by his throne name Qutlugh Bilge Kül Qaghan (骨咄禄毗伽阙可汗, Gǔduōlù Píjiā Quē Kèhán), and in Chinese sources the personal name of Yaoluoge Yibiaobi (藥羅葛逸标苾) was the khagan of Uyghur Khaganate, the successor state of the Second Turkic Khaganate, from 744 to 747 AD.

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Kutrigurs

The Kutrigurs were a Turkic nomadic equestrian tribe who flourished on the Pontic–Caspian steppe in the 6th century AD. Nomadic empire and Kutrigurs are nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Kyrgyz Khaganate

The Kyrgyz Khaganate (State of the Kyrgyz) was a Turkic empire that existed for about a century between the early 6th and 13th centuries. Nomadic empire and Kyrgyz Khaganate are nomadic empires.

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Kyrgyz people

The Kyrgyz people (also spelled Kyrghyz, Kirgiz, and Kirghiz; or) are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia. Nomadic empire and Kyrgyz people are nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia, lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ranges.

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List of Mongol states

This is a list of Mongol states.

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Lists of battles of the Mongol invasion of Europe

These are lists of battles of the Mongol invasion of Europe.

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Mamluk

Mamluk or Mamaluk (mamlūk (singular), مماليك, mamālīk (plural); translated as "one who is owned", meaning "slave") were non-Arab, ethnically diverse (mostly Turkic, Caucasian, Eastern and Southeastern European) enslaved mercenaries, slave-soldiers, and freed slaves who were assigned high-ranking military and administrative duties, serving the ruling Arab and Ottoman dynasties in the Muslim world.

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Manchu people

The Manchus are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia.

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Manchuria

Manchuria is a term that refers to a region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China, and historically parts of the modern-day Russian Far East, often referred to as Outer Manchuria. Nomadic empire and Manchuria are Inner Asia.

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Mandala

A mandala (circle) is a geometric configuration of symbols.

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Möngke Khan

Möngke Khan (also Möngke Khagan or Möngke; 11 January 1209 – 11 August 1259) was the fourth khagan of the Mongol Empire, ruling from 1 July 1251, to 11 August 1259.

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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.

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Michal Biran

Michal Biran (מיכל בירן, born 28 June 1978) is an Israeli politician.

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Middle East

The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.

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Migration Period

The Migration Period (circa 300 to 600 AD), also known as the Barbarian Invasions, was a period in European history marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire and subsequent settlement of its former territories by various tribes, and the establishment of the post-Roman kingdoms.

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Ming dynasty

The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Mleccha

Mleccha (from) is a Sanskrit term, referring to those of an incomprehensible speech, foreign or barbarous invaders as distinguished from the Vedic tribes.

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Moesia

Moesia (Latin: Moesia; Moisía) was an ancient region and later Roman province situated in the Balkans south of the Danube River.

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Mohe people

The Mohe, Malgal, or Mogher, or Mojie, were historical groups of people that once occupied parts of what's now Northeast Asia during late antiquity.

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Mongol Empire

The Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest contiguous empire in history. Nomadic empire and Mongol Empire are former empires, nomadic empires and nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. Nomadic empire and Mongolia are Inner Asia.

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Mongolian Plateau

The Mongolian Plateau is an inland plateau in Asia that lies between 37°46′-53°08′N and 87°40′-122°15′E and has an area of approximately.

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Mongolic languages

The Mongolic languages are a language family spoken by the Mongolic peoples in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, North Asia and East Asia, mostly in Mongolia and surrounding areas and in Kalmykia and Buryatia.

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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. Nomadic empire and Mongols are nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Nikolay Kradin

Nikolay Nikolaevich Kradin (Крадин Николай Николаевич; born in Onokhoy, Buryatia, Russian SFSR on April 17, 1962) is a Russian anthropologist and archaeologist. Nomadic empire and Nikolay Kradin are nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Nineveh

Nineveh (𒌷𒉌𒉡𒀀, URUNI.NU.A, Ninua; נִינְוֵה, Nīnəwē; نَيْنَوَىٰ, Naynawā; ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ, Nīnwē), also known in early modern times as Kouyunjik, was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq.

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Nomad

Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas.

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North Caucasian Huns

The Khuni, Huni or Chuni were a people of the North Caucasus during late antiquity.

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Northeast China

Northeast China, also historically called Manchuria or Songliao, is a geographical region of China. Nomadic empire and Northeast China are Inner Asia.

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Northern Wei

Wei, known in historiography as the Northern Wei, Tuoba Wei, Yuan Wei and Later Wei, was an imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Tuoba (Tabgach) clan of the Xianbei.

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Northern Yuan

The Northern Yuan was a dynastic regime ruled by the Mongol Borjigin clan based in the Mongolian Plateau. Nomadic empire and Northern Yuan are Inner Asia.

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Nurhaci

Nurhaci (14 May 1559 – 30 September 1626), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Taizu of Qing, was the founding khan of the Jurchen-led Later Jin dynasty.

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Oghuric languages

The Oghuric, Onoguric or Oguric languages (also known as Bulgar, Bulgharic, Bolgar, Pre-Proto-Bulgaric or Lir-Turkic and r-Turkic) are a branch of the Turkic language family.

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Oghuz languages

The Oghuz languages are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family, spoken by approximately 108 million people.

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Oirats

Oirats (Ойрад, Oirad) or Oirds (Ойрд, Oird; Өөрд; 瓦剌, Wǎlà/Wǎlā), also formerly Eluts and Eleuths (厄魯特, Èlǔtè), are the westernmost group of the Mongols whose ancestral home is in the Altai region of Siberia, Xinjiang and western Mongolia. Nomadic empire and Oirats are nomadic empires.

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Old Great Bulgaria

Old Great Bulgaria (Medieval Greek: Παλαιά Μεγάλη Βουλγαρία, Palaiá Megálē Voulgaría), also often known by the Latin names Magna Bulgaria and Patria Onoguria ("Onogur land"), was a 7th-century Turkic nomadic empire formed by the Onogur-Bulgars on the western Pontic–Caspian steppe (modern southern Ukraine and southwest Russia). Nomadic empire and Old Great Bulgaria are nomadic empires.

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Orda (organization)

An orda (also ordu, ordo, or ordon) or horde was a historical sociopolitical and military structure found on the Eurasian Steppe, usually associated with the Turkic and Mongol peoples. Nomadic empire and orda (organization) are nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Ostrogoths

The Ostrogoths (Ostrogothi, Austrogothi) were a Roman-era Germanic people.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Pannonia

Pannonia was a province of the Roman Empire bounded on the north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia.

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Parthia

Parthia (𐎱𐎼𐎰𐎺 Parθava; 𐭐𐭓𐭕𐭅Parθaw; 𐭯𐭫𐭮𐭥𐭡𐭥 Pahlaw) is a historical region located in northeastern Greater Iran.

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Pax Mongolica

The Pax Mongolica (Latin for "Mongol Peace"), less often known as Pax Tatarica ("Tatar Peace"), is a historiographical term modeled after the original phrase Pax Romana which describes the stabilizing effects of the conquests of the Mongol Empire on the social, cultural and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast Eurasian territory that the Mongols conquered in the 13th and 14th centuries.

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Polish people

Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe.

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Polity

A polity is a group of people with a collective identity, who are organized by some form of political institutionalized social relations, and have a capacity to mobilize resources.

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Pontic–Caspian steppe

The Pontic–Caspian Steppe is a steppe extending across Eastern Europe to Central Asia, formed by the Caspian and Pontic steppes. Nomadic empire and Pontic–Caspian steppe are Iranian nomads and nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Proto-Indo-European society

Proto-Indo-European society is the reconstructed culture of Proto-Indo-Europeans, the ancient speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language, ancestor of all modern Indo-European languages.

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Proto-Mongols

The proto-Mongols emerged from an area that had been inhabited by humans and predecessor hominin species as far back as 45,000 years ago during the Upper Paleolithic.

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Punjab

Punjab (also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb), also known as the Land of the Five Rivers, is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is specifically located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern-Pakistan and northwestern-India.

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Qapaghan Qaghan

Qapaghan or Qapghan Qaghan (Qapaγan qaγan, meaning "the conqueror",, Xiao'erjing: ٿِيًا شًا, Dungan: Чяншан,, also called Bögü Qaghan (Bögü qaγan) in Bain Tsokto inscriptions) was the second khagan of the Second Turkic Khaganate during Wu Zetian's reign and was the younger brother of the first kaghan, Ilterish Qaghan.

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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. Nomadic empire and Qara Khitai are former empires.

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Qin Shi Huang

Qin Shi Huang (February 25912 July 210 BC) was the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of China.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Red Turban Rebellions

The Red Turban Rebellions were uprisings against the Yuan dynasty between 1351 and 1368, eventually leading to its collapse.

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Reuven Amitai

Reuven Amitai (ראובן עמיתי; born August 23, 1955), also Reuven Amitai-Preiss, is an Israeli-American historian and writer, specializing in pre-modern Islamic civilization, especially Syria and Palestine during the time of the Mamluk Empire.

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Robert Drews

Robert Drews (born March 26, 1936) is an American historian who is Professor of Classical Studies Emeritus at Vanderbilt University.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome. Nomadic empire and Roman Empire are former empires.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Roxelana

Hürrem Sultan (translit; "the joyful one"; 1504 – 15 April 1558), also known as Roxelana (translit), was the chief consort and legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.

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Russian Academy of Sciences

The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk) consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals.

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Saka

The Saka were a group of nomadic Eastern Iranian peoples who historically inhabited the northern and eastern Eurasian Steppe and the Tarim Basin. Nomadic empire and Saka are history of Central Asia, Iranian nomads and nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Sarmatians

The Sarmatians (Sarmatai; Latin: Sarmatae) were a large confederation of ancient Iranian equestrian nomadic peoples who dominated the Pontic steppe from about the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD. Nomadic empire and Sarmatians are Iranian nomads.

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Sarmatism

Sarmatism (or Sarmatianism; Sarmatyzm; Sarmatizmas) was an ethno-cultural ideology within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Sarnath

Sarnath (also referred to as Sarangnath, Isipatana, Rishipattana, Migadaya, or Mrigadava) is a place located northeast of Varanasi, near the confluence of the Ganges and the Varuna rivers in Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Satrap

A satrap was a governor of the provinces of the ancient Median and Persian (Achaemenid) Empires and in several of their successors, such as in the Sasanian Empire and the Hellenistic empires.

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Sāketa

Sākēta is a Sanskrit appellation of the Indian city of Ayodhya.

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Scythia

Scythia (Scythian: Skulatā; Old Persian: Skudra; Ancient Greek: Skuthia; Latin: Scythia) or Scythica (Ancient Greek: Skuthikē; Latin: Scythica), also known as Pontic Scythia, was a kingdom created by the Scythians during the 6th to 3rd centuries BC in the Pontic–Caspian steppe. Nomadic empire and Scythia are nomadic empires.

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Scythia Minor

Scythia Minor or Lesser Scythia (Greek: Μικρά Σκυθία) was a Roman province in late antiquity, corresponding to the lands between the Danube and the Black Sea, today's Dobruja divided between Romania and Bulgaria.

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Scythian languages

The Scythian languages (or or) are a group of Eastern Iranic languages of the classical and late antique period (the Middle Iranic period), spoken in a vast region of Eurasia by the populations belonging to the Scythian cultures and their descendants.

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Scythians

The Scythians or Scyths (but note Scytho- in composition) and sometimes also referred to as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where they remained established from the 7th century BC until the 3rd century BC. Nomadic empire and Scythians are Iranian nomads.

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Scytho-Siberian world

The Scytho-Siberian world was an archaeological horizon that flourished across the entire Eurasian Steppe during the Iron Age, from approximately the 9th century BC to the 2nd century AD.

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Sea of Azov

The Sea of Azov is an inland shelf sea in Eastern Europe connected to the Black Sea by the narrow (about) Strait of Kerch, and sometimes regarded as a northern extension of the Black Sea.

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Second Turkic Khaganate

The Second Turkic Khaganate (State of the Turks,, known as Turk Bilge Qaghan country (Türük Bilgä Qaγan eli) in Bain Tsokto inscriptions) was a khaganate in Central and Eastern Asia founded by Ashina clan of the Göktürks that lasted between 682–744. Nomadic empire and Second Turkic Khaganate are former empires.

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Sedentism

In cultural anthropology, sedentism (sometimes called sedentariness; compare sedentarism) is the practice of living in one place for a long time.

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Shakya

Shakya (Pāḷi:; translit) was an ancient clan of the northeastern region of South Asia, whose existence is attested during the Iron Age.

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Shem

Shem (שֵׁם Šēm; Sām) was one of the sons of Noah in the Bible (Genesis 5–11 and 1 Chronicles 1:4).

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Shenyang

Shenyang is a sub-provincial city in north-central Liaoning, China.

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Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

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Silesia

Silesia (see names below) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within modern Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.

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Silk Road

The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. Nomadic empire and Silk Road are history of Central Asia.

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Slash-and-burn

Slash-and-burn agriculture is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden.

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Slavicisation

Slavicisation or Slavicization, is the acculturation of something non-Slavic into a Slavic culture, cuisine, region, or nation.

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Sogdia

Sogdia or Sogdiana was an ancient Iranian civilization between the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, and in present-day Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Nomadic empire and Sogdia are history of Central Asia.

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Southern Federal District

The Southern Federal District (p) is one of the eight federal districts of Russia.

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Speyergau

Speyergau was a medieval county in the East Frankish (German) stem duchy of Franconia.

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Sushen

Sushen is the historical Chinese name for an ancient ethnic group of people who lived in the northeastern part of China (in the area of modern Jilin and Heilongjiang) and what is in modern times the Russian Maritime Province and some other Siberian provinces.

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Szlachta

The szlachta (Polish:; Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and, as a social class, dominated those states by exercising political rights and power.

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Tajikistan

Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia.

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Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. Nomadic empire and Tang dynasty are former empires.

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Tarim Basin

The Tarim Basin is an endorheic basin in Xinjiang, Northwestern China occupying an area of about and one of the largest basins in Northwest China.

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Tarim mummies

The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1800 BCE to the first centuries BCE, with a new group of individuals recently dated to between c. 2100 and 1700 BCE.

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Tümen Zasagt Khan

Zasagt Khan (Засагт хаан), born Tümen (Түмэн), (1539–1592) was a khagan of the Northern Yuan dynasty, reigning from 1558 to 1592.

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Tengri

Tengri (lit; Old Uyghur: tängri; Middle Turkic: تآنغرِ; تڭری; Теңир; Тәңір; Tanrı; Tanrı; Тангра; Proto-Turkic: *teŋri / *taŋrɨ; Mongolian script:, T'ngri; Тэнгэр, Tenger; تەڭرى, tengri) is the all-encompassing God of Heaven in the traditional Turkic, Yeniseian, Mongolic, and various other nomadic Altaic religious beliefs.

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Thalassocracy

A thalassocracy or thalattocracy, sometimes also maritime empire, is a state with primarily maritime realms, an empire at sea, or a seaborne empire. Nomadic empire and thalassocracy are empires.

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Thomas T. Allsen

Thomas Theodore Allsen (February 16, 1940 – February 18, 2019) was an American historian specializing in Mongolian studies.

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Timur

Timur, also known as Tamerlane (8 April 133617–18 February 1405), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in and around modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia, becoming the first ruler of the Timurid dynasty. An undefeated commander, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest military leaders and tacticians in history, as well as one of the most brutal and deadly.

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Timurid Empire

The Timurid Empire was a late medieval, culturally Persianate Turco-Mongol empire that dominated Greater Iran in the early 15th century, comprising modern-day Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, much of Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and parts of contemporary Pakistan, North India and Turkey. Nomadic empire and Timurid Empire are former empires and nomadic empires.

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Tocharians

The Tocharians or Tokharians were speakers of the Tocharian languages, Indo-European languages known from around 7,600 documents from around AD 400 to 1200, found on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin (modern-day Xinjiang, China).

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Tughril I

Abu Talib Muhammad Tughril ibn Mika'il (ابوطالبْ محمد طغرل بن میکائیل), better known as Tughril (طغرل / طغریل; also spelled Toghril / Tughrul), was a Turkoman"The defeat in August 1071 of the Byzantine emperor Romanos Diogenes by the Turkomans at the battle of Malazgirt (Manzikert) is taken as a turning point in the history of Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire.

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Tungusic peoples

Tungusic peoples are an ethnolinguistic group formed by the speakers of Tungusic languages (or Manchu–Tungus languages). Nomadic empire and Tungusic peoples are nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Turco–Mongol tradition

The Turco-Mongol or Turko-Mongol tradition was an ethnocultural synthesis that arose in Asia during the 14th century among the ruling elites of the Golden Horde and the Chagatai Khanate.

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Turkic languages

The Turkic languages are a language family of more than 35 documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe to Central Asia, East Asia, North Asia (Siberia), and West Asia.

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Turkic migration

The Turkic migrations were the spread of Turkic tribes and Turkic languages across Eurasia between the 4th and 11th centuries. Nomadic empire and Turkic migration are history of Central Asia.

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Turkic peoples

The Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of West, Central, East, and North Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages. Nomadic empire and Turkic peoples are nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan is a country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west.

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Tuva

Tuva (Тува) or Tyva (Tıva), officially the Republic of Tyva, is a republic of Russia.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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Utigurs

Utigurs were Turkic nomadic equestrians who flourished in the Pontic–Caspian steppe in the 6th century AD.

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Uyghur Khaganate

The Uyghur Khaganate (also Uyghur Empire or Uighur Khaganate, self defined as Toquz-Oghuz country; Nine clan people, Tang-era names, with modern Hanyu Pinyin: or) was a Turkic empire that existed for about a century between the mid 8th and 9th centuries. Nomadic empire and Uyghur Khaganate are former empires, nomadic empires and nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.

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Varanasi

Varanasi (ISO:,; also Benares, Banaras or Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.

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Vistula

The Vistula (Wisła,, Weichsel) is the longest river in Poland and the ninth-longest in Europe, at in length.

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Voivodeship

A voivodeship or voivodate is the area administered by a voivode (governor) in several countries of central and eastern Europe.

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Volga

The Volga (p) is the longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of, and a catchment area of., Russian State Water Registry It is also Europe's largest river in terms of average discharge at delta – between and – and of drainage basin.

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Volga region

The Volga region (Поволжье, Povolzhye, literally: "along the Volga") is a historical region in Russia that encompasses the drainage basin of the Volga River, the longest river in Europe, in central and southern European Russia.

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Western Turkic Khaganate

The Western Turkic Khaganate or Onoq Khaganate (Ten arrow people) was a Turkic khaganate in Eurasia, formed as a result of the wars in the beginning of the 7th century (593–603 CE) after the split of the First Turkic Khaganate (founded in the 6th century on the Mongolian Plateau by the Ashina clan), into a western and an eastern Khaganate. Nomadic empire and western Turkic Khaganate are former empires and nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Western world

The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.

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William Montgomery McGovern

William Montgomery McGovern (September 28, 1897 – December 12, 1964) was an American adventurer, political scientist, Northwestern University professor, anthropologist and journalist.

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Xianbei

The Xianbei were an ancient nomadic people that once resided in the eastern Eurasian steppes in what is today Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Northeastern China. Nomadic empire and Xianbei are former empires, Inner Asia, nomadic empires and nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Xinjiang

Xinjiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia. Nomadic empire and Xinjiang are Inner Asia.

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Xiongnu

The Xiongnu were a tribal confederation of nomadic peoples who, according to ancient Chinese sources, inhabited the eastern Eurasian Steppe from the 3rd century BC to the late 1st century AD. Nomadic empire and Xiongnu are nomadic empires and nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Xionites

Xionites, Chionites, or Chionitae (Middle Persian: Xiyōn or Hiyōn; Avestan: Xiiaona; Sogdian xwn; Pahlavi Xyōn) were a nomadic people in the Central Asian regions of Transoxiana and Bactria. Nomadic empire and Xionites are Iranian nomads and nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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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 Dashi

Yelü Dashi (alternatively), courtesy name Zhongde (重德), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Dezong of Western Liao (西遼德宗), was the founder of the Western Liao dynasty (Qara Khitai).

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Yellow River

The Yellow River is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze; with an estimated length of it is the sixth-longest river system on Earth.

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Yenisey

The Yenisey (Енисе́й) is the fifth-longest river system in the world, and the largest to drain into the Arctic Ocean.

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Yuan dynasty

The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Mongolian:, Yeke Yuwan Ulus, literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its ''de facto'' division.

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Yuezhi

The Yuezhi were an ancient people first described in Chinese histories as nomadic pastoralists living in an arid grassland area in the western part of the modern Chinese province of Gansu, during the 1st millennium BC. After a major defeat at the hands of the Xiongnu in 176 BC, the Yuezhi split into two groups migrating in different directions: the Greater Yuezhi (Dà Yuèzhī 大月氏) and Lesser Yuezhi (Xiǎo Yuèzhī 小月氏). Nomadic empire and Yuezhi are nomadic groups in Eurasia.

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Zabaykalsky Krai

Zabaykalsky Krai (Transbaikal territory) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the Russian Far East.

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Zeno (emperor)

Zeno (Zénōn; – 9 April 491) was Eastern Roman emperor from 474 to 475 and again from 476 to 491.

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Zhongyuan

Zhongyuan, the Central Plain(s), also known as Zhongtu (lit. 'central land') and Zhongzhou (lit. 'central region'), commonly refers to the part of the North China Plain surrounding the lower and middle reaches of the Yellow River, centered on the region between Luoyang and Kaifeng.

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Ziezi

According to an anonymous Roman author of the 4th century CE, the producer of the Chronography of 354, Ziezi was a son of Shem and a grandson of Noah.

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See also

Empires

• American imperialism
• Chinese expansionism
• Colonial empire
• Conquest dynasty
• Emperors
• Empire
• Factory (trading post)
• Gunpowder empires
• Hegemony
• Hydraulic empire
• Imperialism
• Informal empire
• List of empires
• List of largest empires
• Nomadic empire
• Republican empire
• Russian imperialism
• Tellurocracy
• Thalassocracy
• The empire on which the sun never sets

Inner Asia

• Amur Oblast
• Dzungar Khanate
• Gansu
• Greater Central Asia
• Han dynasty in Inner Asia
• Inner Asia
• Inner Mongolia
• Khabarovsk Krai
• Lifan Yuan
• Manchuria
• Ming dynasty in Inner Asia
• Mongolia
• Mugulü
• Nomadic empire
• Nomadic empires
• Northeast China
• Northeast China Plain
• Northern Yuan
• Outer Manchuria
• Outer Mongolia
• Primorsky Krai
• Qing dynasty in Inner Asia
• Qinghai
• Rouran
• Rouran Khaganate
• Tang dynasty in Inner Asia
• The Cambridge History of Inner Asia
• Tibet
• Timeline of the Oirats
• Western China
• Western Regions
• Xianbei
• Xinjiang
• Yeniseian people
• Yuan dynasty in Inner Asia
• Yujiulü clan

Nomadic empires

• Cumania
• First Turkic Khaganate
• Göktürks
• Huns
• Kalmyk Khanate
• Khamag Mongol
• Khazars
• Kimek–Kipchak confederation
• Kushan Empire
• Kyrgyz Khaganate
• Mongol Empire
• Nomadic empire
• Oghuz Yabgu State
• Oirats
• Old Great Bulgaria
• Pannonian Avars
• Principality of Hungary
• Rouran
• Scythia
• Timurid Empire
• Uyghur Khaganate
• Xianbei
• Xiongnu
• Xueyantuo

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomadic_empire

Also known as Horse archer empire, Horse archer empires, Horseback empires, Nomad empire, Nomadic Empires, Nomadic Empires of Central Asia, Steppe empire.

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