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{{History of the Mongols}}
The '''proto-Mongols''' emerged from an area that had been inhabited by humans and predecessor hominin species as far back as the [[Stone Age]] over 800,000 years ago.<ref>[http://www.archaeology.mas.ac.mn/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=64 Хүрээлэнгийн эрдэм шинжилгээний ажлын ололт амжилт] (in Mongolian)</ref> The people there went through the [[Bronze Age|Bronze]] and [[Iron Age]]s, forming tribal alliances, peopling, and coming into conflict with early [[China]].

The proto-Mongols formed various tribal kingdoms that fought against each other for supremacy, such as the [[Rouran Khaganate]] from 333 to 555 AD until it was defeated by the [[Göktürks]], who founded the [[Turkic Khaganate]] (552–744), which in turn was subdued by the growing strength of the Chinese [[Tang dynasty]]. The destruction of the [[Uyghur Khaganate]] (744–848) by the [[Yenisei Kirghiz]] resulted in the end of Turkic dominance in Mongolia.

The para-Mongol [[Khitan people]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Janhunen|first1=Juha|title=Mongolian|date=2014|publisher=John Benjamins|location=Amsterdam|isbn=9789027238252|page=4}}</ref> founded a state known as the [[Liao dynasty]] (907–1125) in Central Asia and ruled Mongolia and portions of the eastern coast of Siberia now known as the [[Russian Far East]], northern [[Korea]], and [[North China]]. Over the next few hundred years, the Chinese subtly encouraged warfare among the [[Mongols]] as a way of keeping them distracted from invading China.{{facts|date=September 2015}}

In the 12th century, [[Genghis Khan]] was able to unite or conquer the warring tribes, forging them into a unified fighting force that went on to create the largest contiguous empire in world history, the [[Mongol Empire]], which was finally able to conquer the whole of China—beginning with his invasion of the [[Jurchen people|Jurchen]] [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jin Dynasty]] and ending with his grandson [[Kublai Khan]]'s conquest of the [[Southern Song Dynasty]], establishing the Mongol-led [[Yuan dynasty]].<ref>http://www.history.com/topics/kublai-khan</ref> 

==Origins==
[[Image:Mongolcavepaintings.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Cave paintings]]
Archaeological evidence proves that early [[Stone Age]] hominins habitated in Mongolia 850,000 years ago.

By the first millennium BC, bronze-working peoples lived in [[Mongolia]]. With the appearance of iron weapons by the 3rd century BC, the inhabitants of Mongolia had begun to form Clan alliances and lived a hunter and herder lifestyle. The origins of more modern inhabitants are found among the forest hunters and nomadic tribes of [[Inner Asia]]. They inhabited a great arc of land extending generally from the [[Korean Peninsula]] in the east, across the northern tier of China to present-day [[Kazakhstan]] and to the [[Pamir Mountains]] and [[Lake Balkash]] in the west. During most of recorded history, this has been an area of constant ferment from which emerged numerous migrations and invasions to the southeast (into China), to the southwest (into [[Transoxiana]]—modern [[Uzbekistan]], [[Iran]], and [[India]]), and to the west (across [[Scythia]] toward [[Europe]]).

By the eighth century BC, the inhabitants of Mongolian western part evidently were nomadic Indo-European speakers, either [[Scythians]]<ref name="studies">[http://countrystudies.us/mongolia/4.htm countrystudies.us - Origins of the Mongols]</ref> or [[Yuezhi]]. In central and eastern parts of Mongolia were many other tribes that were primarily Mongol in their ethnologic characteristics.<ref name="studies"/>

==Xiongnu==
The [[Xiongnu]] were a group of [[Eurasian nomads|nomads]] who dominated the [[Asian Steppe]] from the late 3rd century BC to the late 1st century AD, although it is not yet known whether they were proto-Mongols.<ref>[[Xiongnu#Mongolic theories]]</ref> The [[Sino-Xiongnu War]] saw a Chinese army that had adopted Xiongnu military technology{{facts|date=October 2016}}—wearing trousers and using mounted archers with stirrups—pursuing the Xiongnu across the Gobi in a ruthless punitive expedition.{{facts|date=October 2016}} Fortification walls built by various Chinese warring states were connected to make a 2300-kilometer Great Wall along the northern border, as a barrier to further nomadic inroads.{{when|date=October 2016}} 

The Xiongnu temporarily abandoned their interest in China and turned their attention westward to the region of the Altai Mountains and [[Lake Balkash]], inhabited by the [[Yuezhi]], an [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]]-speaking nomadic people who had relocated from China's present-day [[Gansu]] as a result of their earlier defeat by the Xiongnu. [[Endemic warfare]] between these two nomadic peoples reached a climax in the latter part of the 3rd century and the early decades of the 2nd century BC; the Xiongnu were triumphant. The Yuezhi then migrated to the southwest where, early in the 2nd century, they began to appear in the [[Amu Darya]] Valley to change the course of history in [[Bactria]], Iran, and eventually India.

Meanwhile, the Xiongnu again raided northern China about 200 BCE, finding that the inadequately defended Great Wall was not a serious obstacle. By the middle of the 2nd century BCE, they controlled all of northern and western China north of the Yellow River. This renewed threat led the Chinese to improve their defenses in the north, while building up and improving the army, particularly the cavalry, and while preparing long-range plans for an invasion of Mongolia. 

Between 130-121 BCE, Chinese armies drove the Xiongnu back across the Great Wall, weakening their hold on Gansu as well as on what is now [[Inner Mongolia]], and finally pushed them north of the Gobi into central Mongolia. Following these victories, the Chinese expanded into the areas later known as [[Manchuria]], Mongolia, the Korean Peninsula, and Inner Asia. The Xiongnu, once more turning their attention to the west and the southwest, raided deep into the Amu Darya valley between 73-44 BCE. The descendants of the Yuezhi and their Chinese rulers, however, formed a common front against the Xiongnu and repelled them. 

During the next century, as Chinese strength waned, border warfare between the Chinese and the Xiongnu was almost incessant. Gradually the nomads forced their way back into Gansu and the northern part of what is now China's [[Xinjiang]]. In about the middle of the first century CE, a revitalized [[Han dynasty#Eastern Han|Eastern Han]] (25-220 CE) slowly recovered these territories, driving the Xiongnu back into the [[Altai Mountains]] and the steppes north of the Gobi. During the late first century, having reestablished the administrative control over southern China and northern Vietnam that had been lost briefly at beginning of this same century, the Eastern Han made a concerted effort to reassert dominance over Inner Asia.

The identity of the ethnic core of Xiongnu has been a subject of varied hypotheses and some scholars, including A. Luvsandendev, [[:ru:Bernát Munkácsy|Bernát Munkácsy]], [[Henry Hoyle Howorth]], [[Bolor Erike]],<ref name="crystal">Rashpunstag (1776) "''[[Bolor Erike|The Crystal Beads]]''"</ref> [[Alexey Okladnikov]], [[Peter Simon Pallas]], [[Isaac Jacob Schmidt]], [[Hyacinth (Bichurin)|Hyacinth]] and [[Byambyn Rinchen]],<ref>Ts. Baasansuren "The scholar who showed the true Mongolia to the world", Summer 2010 vol.6 (14) ''Mongolica'', pp.40</ref> insisted on a proto-Mongolian origin.

There are many cultural similarities between the Xiongnu and Mongols such as [[Architecture of Mongolia#Yurts|yurt on cart]], [[Composite bow#By mounted archers|mounted use of the composite bow]], [[board game]], horn bow and [[long song]].<ref>Н.Сэр-Оджав, Монголын эртний түүх. 1977</ref> The Mongolian long song is believed to date back at least 2000 years.<ref>[http://www.unesco.org/culture/intangible-heritage/25apa_uk.htm Mongolian traditional folk song UNESCO.org]</ref> A mythical origin of the long song is mentioned in the ''[[Book of Wei]]'', volume 113.

==Donghu, Tuoba, and Rouran==
Although the Xiongnu finally had been driven back into their homeland by the Chinese in AD 48, within ten years the [[Xianbei]] (or Hsien-pei in Wade–Giles) had moved (apparently from the north or northwest) into the region vacated by the Xiongnu. The Xianbei were the northern branch of the [[Donghu people|Donghu]] (or Tung Hu, the Eastern Hu), a proto-Mongol and/or Tunguz group mentioned in Chinese histories as existing as early as the 4th century BC. The language of the Donghu, unlike that of the Xiongnu, is believed to be proto-Mongolic to modern scholars. The Donghu were among the first peoples conquered by the Xiongnu. Once the Xiongnu state weakened, however, the [[Donghu people|Donghu]] rebelled. By the 1st century AD, two major subdivisions of the Donghu had developed: the proto-Mongolic [[Xianbei]] in the north and the [[Wuhuan]] in the south. The Xianbei, who by the 2nd century AD were attacking Chinese farms south of the Great Wall, established an empire, which, although short-lived, gave rise to numerous tribal states along the Chinese frontier. Among these states was that of the [[Tuoba]] (T'o-pa in Wade–Giles), a subgroup of the Xianbei, in modern China's [[Shanxi Province]]. The Wuhuan also were prominent in the 2nd century, but they disappeared thereafter; possibly they were absorbed in the Xianbei western expansion. The Xianbei and the Wuhuan used mounted archers in warfare, and they had only temporary war leaders instead of hereditary chiefs. Agriculture, rather than full-scale nomadism, was the basis of their economy. In the 6th century, the Wuhuan were driven out of Inner Asia into the Russian{{Clarify|date=September 2008}} steppe. 

Chinese control of parts of Inner Asia did not last beyond the opening years of the 2nd century AD, and, as the Eastern Han Dynasty ended early in the 3rd century AD, suzerainty was limited primarily to the Gansu corridor. The Xianbei were able to make forays into a China beset with internal unrest and political disintegration. By 317 all of China north of the [[Yangtze River]] (Chang Jiang) had been overrun by nomadic peoples: the Xianbei from the north; some remnants of the Xiongnu from the northwest; and the Chiang people of Gansu and [[Tibet]] (present-day China's Xizang Autonomous Region) from the west and the southwest. Chaos prevailed as these groups warred with each other and repulsed the vain efforts of the fragmented Chinese kingdoms south of the Yangtze River to reconquer the region. 

By the end of the 4th century, the region between the Yangtze and the Gobi, including much of modern Xinjiang, was dominated by the Tuoba. Emerging as the partially sinicized state of Dai between AD 338 and 376 in the Shanxi area, the Tuoba established control over the region as the [[Northern Wei Dynasty]] (AD 386-533). Northern Wei armies drove back the [[Juan Juan|Ruruan]] (referred to as Ruanruan or Juan-Juan by Chinese chroniclers), a newly arising nomadic Mongol people in the steppes north of the Altai Mountains, and reconstructed the Great Wall. During the 4th century also, the Huns left the steppes north of the [[Aral Sea]] to invade Europe{{Dubious|date=September 2008}}. By the middle of the 5th century, Northern Wei had penetrated into the [[Tarim Basin]] in Inner Asia, as had the Chinese in the 2nd century. As the empire grew, however, Tuoba tribal customs were supplanted by those of the Chinese, an evolution not accepted by all Tuoba. 

The Ruruan, only temporarily repelled by Northern Wei, had driven the Xiongnu toward the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea and were making raids into China. In the late 5th century, the Ruruan established a powerful nomadic empire spreading generally farther north of Northern Wei. It was probably the Ruruan who first used the title [[Khan (title)|khan]].

==Rise of the Göktürks==
Northern Wei was disintegrating rapidly because of revolts of semi-tribal Tuoba military forces that were opposed to being sinicized, when disaster struck the flourishing [[Juan Juan|Ruruan Empire]]. The [[Göktürks]], known as Tujue to Chinese chroniclers, revolted against their Ruruan rulers. The uprising began in the Altai Mountains, where many of the Türk were serfs working the iron mines. Thus, from the outset of their revolt, they had the advantage of controlling what had been one of the major bases of Ruruan power. Between 546 and 553, the Göktürks overthrew the Ruruan and established themselves as the most powerful force in North Asia and Inner Asia. This was the beginning of a pattern of conquest that was to have a significant effect upon Eurasian history for more than 1,000 years.{{Clarify|date=September 2008}} The Göktürks were the first people to use this later widespread name. They are also the earliest Inner Asian people whose language is known{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}, because they left behind inscriptions in a runic-like [[Old Turkic script|Orkhon script]], which was deciphered in 1896. 

It was not long before the tribes in the region north of the Gobi—the Eastern Göktürks—were following invasion routes into China used in previous centuries by Xiongnu, Xianbei, Tuoba, and Ruruan. Like their predecessors who had inhabited the mountains and the steppes, the attention of the Göktürks quickly was attracted by the wealth of China. At first these new raiders encountered little resistance, but toward the end of the 6th century, as China slowly began to recover from centuries of disunity, border defenses stiffened. The original Göktürk state split into eastern and western parts, with some of the Eastern Göktürk acknowledging Chinese overlordship. 

For a brief period at the beginning of the 7th century, a new consolidation of the Göktürks, under the Western Göktürk ruler Tardu, again threatened China. In 601 Tardu's army besieged Chang'an (modern Xi'an), then the capital of China. Tardu was turned back, however, and, upon his death two years later, the Göktürk state again fragmented. The Eastern Göktürk nonetheless continued their depredations, occasionally threatening Chang'an.

==Tang dynasty and Uyghur Empire==
From 629 to 648, a reunited China—under the [[Tang Dynasty]] (618-906) --destroyed the power of the Eastern Göktürk north of the Gobi; established suzerainty over the Kitan, a semi-nomadic Mongol people who lived in areas that became the modern Chinese provinces of Heilongjiang and Jilin; and formed an alliance with the [[Uyghur people|Uyghurs]], who inhabited the region between the Altai Mountains and Lake Balkash. Between 641 and 648, the Tang conquered the Western Göktürk, reestablishing Chinese sovereignty over Xinjiang and exacting tribute from west of the Pamir Mountains. The Göktürk empire finally ended in 744. 

For half a century, the Tang retained control of Central Asia and Mongolia and parts of Inner Asia. Both sides of the Great Wall came under Tang rule. During this period, the Tang expanded Chinese control into the Oxus Valley. At the same time, their allies, the Uyghurs, conquered much of western and northern Mongolia until, by the middle of the 8th century, the Uyghur seminomadic empire extended from Lake Balkash to Lake Baykal. 

Despite these crippling losses,{{Clarify|date=September 2008}} the Tang recovered and, with considerable Uyghur assistance, held their frontiers. Tang dependence upon their northern allies was apparently a source of embarrassment to the Chinese, who surreptitiously encouraged the [[Kyrgyz people|Kirghiz]] and the [[Karluks]] to attack the Uyghurs, driving them south into the Tarim Basin. As a result of the Kirghiz action, the Uyghur empire collapsed in 846. Some of the Uyghurs emigrated to the [[Turpan Depression]], where they established the [[Kingdom of Qocho]] that freely submitted to [[Genghis Khan]] several centuries later. Ironically, this weakening of the Uyghurs undoubtedly hastened the decline and fall of the Tang Dynasty over the next fifty years.

==Khitan and Jurchen==
Free of Uyghur restraint, the Para-Mongolic Khitan expanded in all directions in the latter half of the 9th century and the early years of the 10th century. By 925 the Khitan ruled eastern Mongolia, most of Manchuria, and the [[Sixteen Prefectures]] of northern China. By the middle of the 10th century, Khitan chieftains had declared themselves as Emperors and chose a dynastic name in the Chinese fashion; their rule was known as the [[Liao dynasty]] (916–1125). 

The period of the 11th and 12th centuries was one of consolidation{{Dubious|date=September 2008}}, preceding the most momentous era in Mongol history, the era of [[Genghis Khan]]. During those centuries, the vast region of deserts, mountains, and grazing land was inhabited by people resembling each other in racial, cultural, and linguistic characteristics; ethnologically they were essentially Mongol{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}. The similarities{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}} among the Mongols, Göktürk, and [[Tatars]] who inhabited this region cause considerable ethnic and historical confusion. Generally, the Mongols and the closely related Tatars inhabited the northern and the eastern areas; the Göktürk (who already had begun to spread over western [[Asia]] and southeastern [[Europe]]) were in the west and the southwest; the Tangut, who were more closely related to the Tibetans than were the other nomads and who were not a [[Turkic people]], were in eastern Xinjiang, Gansu, and western Inner Mongolia. The Liao state was homogeneous, and the Khitan had begun to lose their nomadic characteristics. The Khitan built cities and exerted dominion over their agricultural subjects as a means of consolidating their empire. To the west and the northwest of Liao were many other Mongol tribes, linked together in various tenuous alliances and groupings, but with little national cohesiveness. In Gansu and eastern Xinjiang, the Tangut—who had taken advantage of the Tang decline—had formed a state, [[Western Xia]] or Xixia (1038–1227), nominally under Chinese{{Clarify|date=September 2008}} suzerainty. Xinjiang was dominated by the Uyghurs, who were loosely allied with the Chinese{{Clarify|date=September 2008}}. 

The people of Mongolia at this time were predominantly spirit worshipers, with shamans providing spiritual and religious guidance to the people and tribal leaders. There had been infusion of Buddhism. 

A Tungusic people, the Jurchen, ancestors of the Manchu, formed an alliance with the Song and reduced the Liao dynasty to vassal status in a seven-year war (1115–1122). The Jurchen leader proclaimed himself the founder of a new era, the [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jurchen Jin dynasty]]. Scarcely pausing in their conquests, the Tungusic [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jurchen]] subdued neighboring [[Goryeo|Koryo]] ([[Korea]]) in 1226{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}} and invaded the territory of their former allies, the Song, to precipitate a series of wars with China that continued through the remainder of the century. Meanwhile, the defeated Khitan Liao ruler had fled with the small remnant of his army to the Tarim Basin, where he allied himself with the Uyghurs and established the [[Qara Khitai]] state (known also as the Western Liao dynasty, 1124–1234), which soon controlled both sides of the Pamir Mountains. The Jurchen turned their attention to the Mongols who, in 1139 and in 1147, warded them off{{Citation needed|date=September 2008}}.

==Shiwei and Menggu==
Some [[Shiwei]] tribes, though little is known, have been considered the ancestors of the Mongols according to ancient Chinese records{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}. Term "Shiwei" was an umbrella term of the Mongolic and some [[Tungusic peoples]] in the 6th to 12th centuries.
During the 5th century, they occupied the area east of the [[Greater Khingan]] Range, what is the [[Hulun Buir]], [[Argun River (Asia)|Ergune]], [[Nen River|Nonni (Noon)]], Middle [[Amur River|Amur]], and the Zeya Watersheds.  They may have been divided into five to twenty tribes.  They were said to be dressed in fish skins.  They may have been nomadic, staying in the marshy lowlands in the winter and the mountains during the summer.  The burial was by exposure in trees.  Their language is described as being similar to Manchu-Tungusic languages and Khitan.  The Türk dynasties (550-740) installed tuduns, or governors over the Shiwei and collected tribute.  Other Shiwei may have stayed and become the Ewenkis.  The Kitans conquered the Shiwei during the late 9th century. One Shiwei tribe, living near the Amur and Ergune rivers, was called the "Menggu" (Mongol){{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}. A few scholars believe they, other Shiwei tribes, and many other peoples from the area moved west from the forest to the Mongolian proper steppe{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}.

==States established by proto-Mongols==
The proto-Mongols founded many states such as the [[Xianbei state]], the [[Rouran Khaganate]], and the Khitan [[Liao dynasty]].{{sfn|Janhunen|2003b|pp=391–394}}{{sfn|Janhunen|2003a|pp=1–3}}{{sfn|Andrews|1999|p=72}}
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!style="width:15em"|Name
!style="width:10em"| Years
!style="width:15em"|Area
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!style="width:23em"|Capital
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| Bida state<br>(Our state)<ref>The Blue Chronicle, [[Vanchinbalyn Injinash]]</ref>
| 
| 
| 
| 
|-
!colspan=10|[[Xianbei]]
|-
| [[Xianbei state]]
| 93–234
| 
| [[File:Mongolia III.jpg|90px]]
| Orda,<br>[[Khangai Mountains]],<br>Mongolia
|-
| [[Western Qin]]
| 385–431
| 
| 
| Yongshicheng (385-386)<br>Wanchuan (386-388, 400, 410-412)<br>
Jincheng (388-395)<br>Xicheng (395-400)<br>Dujianshan (409-410)<br>Tanjiao (412)<br>Fuhan (412-429)<br>Dinglian (429-430)<br>Nan'an (430-431)
|-
!colspan=10|[[Murong|Murong Xianbei]]
|-
|[[Former Yan]]
| 337–370
| 
| 
| Jicheng (337-341)<br>Longcheng (341-350)<br>[[Jicheng (Beijing)|Jicheng]] (350-357)<br> [[Ye, China|Yecheng]] (357-370)
|-
|[[Western Yan]]
| 384–394
| 
| 
| Chang'an (385-386)<br>Zhangzi (386-394)
|-
| [[Later Yan]]
| 384–409
| 
| [[File:Asia 400ad.jpg|90px]]
| Zhongshan (386-397)<br>Longcheng (397-409)
|-
| [[Tuyuhun Kingdom]]
| 284–672
| 
| [[File:Nirun, Tuyuhun, Yueban, Tuoba Wei.jpg|90px]]
| [[Fuqi]]
|-
!colspan=10|[[Tuoba|Tuoba Xianbei states]]
|-
|[[Southern Liang]] 
| 397–414
| 
| [[File:Asia 400ad.jpg|90px]]
| Lianchuan (397-399)<br>Ledu (399, 402-406, 410-414)<br>Xiping (399-402)<br>Guzang (406-410)
|-
|[[Dai (Sixteen Kingdoms)|Dai state]] 
| 315–377
| 
| 
| Shengle
|-
| [[Northern Wei]]
| 386–535
| 2,000,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>(450)<ref name="size">Rein Taagepera "Size and Duration of Empires: Growth-Decline Curves, 600 B.C. to 600 A.D.", Social Science History Vol. 3, 115-138 (1979)</ref>
| [[File:Nirun, Tuyuhun, Yueban, Tuoba Wei.jpg|90px]]
| Shengle (386-398,<br>capital of former<br>[[Dai (Sixteen Kingdoms)|Dai]], near modern [[Huhhot]])<br>[[Datong|Pingcheng]] (398-493)<br>[[Luoyang]] (493-534)<br>[[Chang'an]] (534-535)
|-
| [[Eastern Wei]]
|  534–550
| 1,000,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>(550 AD)<ref name="size"/>
!rowspan=2| [[File:西魏･東魏･梁.PNG|90px]]
| Luoyang (534)<br>[[Ye, China|Yecheng]] (534-550)
|-
| [[Western Wei]]
| 535–557
| 1,300,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>(557 AD)<ref name="size"/>
| [[Chang'an]]
|-
!colspan=10|[[Yuwen|Yuwen Xianbei]]
|-
|[[Northern Zhou]]
| 557–581
| 1,500,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>(577 AD)<ref name="size"/>
| [[File:Northern and Southern Dynasties 560 CE.png|90px]]
| [[Chang'an]]
|-
!colspan=10|Rouran
|-
| [[Rouran Khaganate]]
| 330–555
|4,000,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>(405 AD)<ref name="size"/><ref name="empire">Jonathan M. Adams, Thomas D. Hall and Peter Turchin (2006). East-West Orientation of Historical Empires.Journal of World-Systems Research (University of Connecticut). 12 (no. 2): 219–229.</ref>
| [[File:Nirun, Tuyuhun, Yueban, Tuoba Wei.jpg|90px]]
| Mumo City, in Mongolia
|-
!colspan=10|[[Khitans]] (sometimes considered to be [[Para-Mongolic]])
|-
|[[Liao dynasty]]
| 907–1125
| 2,600,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>(947)<ref name="empire"/><ref name="Taagepera">Rein Taagepera (September 1997). "Expansion and Contraction Patterns of Large Polities: Context for Russia". International Studies Quarterly 41 (3): 475–504.</ref><br>4,000,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>(1111)
| [[File:Mongolia XI.jpg|90px]]
| [[Bairin Left Banner|Shangjing]]
|-
|[[Dongdan Kingdom]]
| 926–936
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Northern Liao]]
| 1122–1123
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Qara Khitai]]
| 1124/1125–1221
| 2,500,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>(1210)<ref name="empire"/>
| [[File:KaraKhitaiAD1200.png|90px]]
| [[Balasagun]]
|-
| [[Eastern Liao]]
| 1211–1220
| 
| 
| 
|-
| [[Buraq Hajib|Khar-Khitan Sultanate]]
| 1220s–1306
| 
| 
| 
|-
!colspan=10|[[Tatabi]] (Kumo Xi)
|-
| [[Great Xi]]
| 1123
| 
| 
| 
|}

==See also==
* [[List of Mongol states]]
* [[List of medieval Mongol tribes and clans]]
* [[Mongol Empire]]
* [[Urheimat]]
*[[Ethnic groups in Chinese history]]
*[[Guifang]]
*[[Five Barbarians|Wu Hu]]

==References==
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*{{loc}} - [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/mntoc.html Mongolia]
*Atwood, Christopher (2004). ''The Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire''

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