The specific origin of the Mongolic languages and associated tribes is unclear. On rare occasions researchers have proposed a link to the Tungusic and Turkic language families, which are included alon ...
Main article: History of MongoliaIn various times Mongolic peoples have been equated with the Scythians, the Magog and the Tungusic peoples. Based on Chinese historical texts the ancestry of the Mongo ...
Many of the Turkic peoples have their homelands in Central Asia, where the Turkic peoples settled from China. According to historian John Foster, "The Turks emerge from among the Huns in the middle of ...
The first known mention of the term Turk (Old Turkic: Old Turkic letter UK.svgOld Turkic letter R2.svgOld Turkic letter U.svgOld Turkic letter T2.svg Türük or Old Turkic letter UK.svgOld Turkic lett ...
Liu Cong was Liu Yuan's fourth son, by his concubine Consort Zhang. When he was young, he was considered both intelligent and strong, and when he studied in the Jin capital Luoyang, his knowledge was ...
Liu Cong was Liu Yuan's fourth son, by his concubine Consort Zhang. When he was young, he was considered both intelligent and strong, and when he studied in the Jin capital Luoyang, his knowledge was ...
The Condition of the Xiongnu in Northern China and their uprising By the 280s, a huge number (approximately 400,000) of Xiongnu herdsmen resided in the Ordos Desert and Bing, a political division incl ...
Linfen County is a small Chinese county in Shanxi province. Its main city is Linfen city, previously called Pingyang, population 680,000. Hukou falls on the Yellow River is in this county. Coordinates ...
Among scholars who proposed an Iranic origin for the Xiongnu are H.W. Bailey (1985, Altaic and Iranian, which has not been followed) and János Harmatta (1999), who believes that the royal tribes and ...
After Modu, later leaders formed a dualistic system of political organisation with the left and right branches of the Xiongnu divided on a regional basis. The chanyu or shan-yü – supreme ruler equiv ...
Liu Yuan was a member of Xiongnu nobility, as a descendant of chanyus of the Luanti (欒提) royal clan, who, along with their people, had long been loyal vassals of Han Dynasty, and then to its success ...
Rulers of the Cheng Han Temple names Posthumous names Family names and given name Durations of reigns Era names and their according durationsChinese convention: use family and given namesCheng 303 or ...
During the Jin Dynasty, the five semi-nomadic tribes of Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, and Qiang overran northern China. Historians call this period the Sixteen Kingdoms. During that period, Di ruled the ...
The Chinese word "Wu" (五) means the number "five" and "Hu" (胡) is a popular modern Chinese surname, but also typically means "mustache or beard", but "Wu-Hu" which probably refers to the native lang ...
The southward migration of nomadic tribes into the lands around the Yellow River had been ongoing since the Eastern Han dynasty, due to several reasons. Military and diplomatic successes provided an i ...
