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The Khalkha, or Halh (Classical Mongolian: qalq-a, Khalkha Mongolian
Mongolian language

The Mongolian language is the best-known member of the Mongolic languages. It is the language of most residents of Mongolia and of many of the Mongolian residents of Inner Mongolia, totalling about 5.7 million speakers....
  ) are a subgroup of the Mongols
Mongols

The name Mongol specifies one or several ethnic groups, now mainly located in Mongolia, China, and Russia....
. They comprise the majority of the population of the independent state of Mongolia
Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
. The standard language of Mongolia is based on the Khalkha dialect.

History
The first reference to the Khalkha people is of the early 16th century. It is widely supported that they got the name from the Khalkha River
Khalkhyn Gol

The Khalkhyn gol is a river in eastern Mongolia and northern China. The length of the river is 232 km.The Khalkha river is famous for the Battle of Khalkhyn Gol, where Soviet and Mongolian forces defeated the Japanese Kwantung Army in August 1939....
 (qalq-a-yin ?oul, ?????? ???) in the far east of Mongolia since they originally lived along it.

Under Dayan Khan
Dayan Khan

Batum?ngke Dayan Khan , was a Mongol Khan who made efforts to reconstruct the Yuan Dynasty....
, the Khalkha were organized as one of three tümen of the Left Wing.






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The Khalkha, or Halh (Classical Mongolian: qalq-a, Khalkha Mongolian
Mongolian language

The Mongolian language is the best-known member of the Mongolic languages. It is the language of most residents of Mongolia and of many of the Mongolian residents of Inner Mongolia, totalling about 5.7 million speakers....
  ) are a subgroup of the Mongols
Mongols

The name Mongol specifies one or several ethnic groups, now mainly located in Mongolia, China, and Russia....
. They comprise the majority of the population of the independent state of Mongolia
Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
. The standard language of Mongolia is based on the Khalkha dialect.

History


The first reference to the Khalkha people is of the early 16th century. It is widely supported that they got the name from the Khalkha River
Khalkhyn Gol

The Khalkhyn gol is a river in eastern Mongolia and northern China. The length of the river is 232 km.The Khalkha river is famous for the Battle of Khalkhyn Gol, where Soviet and Mongolian forces defeated the Japanese Kwantung Army in August 1939....
 (qalq-a-yin ?oul, ?????? ???) in the far east of Mongolia since they originally lived along it.

Under Dayan Khan
Dayan Khan

Batum?ngke Dayan Khan , was a Mongol Khan who made efforts to reconstruct the Yuan Dynasty....
, the Khalkha were organized as one of three tümen of the Left Wing. Dayan Khan installed the fifth son Alchu Bolad and the eleventh son Geresenje on the Khalkha. The former became the founder of the Five Khalkha (tabun otu? qalq-a) of Southern Mongolia and the latter became the founder of the Seven Khalkha (dolu?an otu? qalq-a) of the Northern Mongolia. They were called Inner Khalkha and Outer Khalkha respectively, by the Manchu
Manchu

The Manchu people are a Tungusic peoples who originated in Manchuria . During their rise in the seventeenth century, with the help of Ming rebels , they conquered the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China until its abolition in 1911 after the Xinhai Revolution, which established Republic of China in its place....
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