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Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...

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Individual administrative districts are listed in Sums of Mongolia.

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Achit Nuur

Achit Lake is the largest freshwater lake in the Uvs Aimag of Mongolia, in the west of the country. At an elevation of 1,435 m above sea level it covers an area of 290 km². It is 28 km long, 16 km wide, and 10 m deep. The coast is covered with steppes, mostly hilly but swampy on the northwest and...

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Adasaurus

Adasaurus

Adasaurus is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Central Asia. It was a small bipedal carnivore with a sickle-shaped claw on the second toe of each hind foot. An adult was perhaps about long....

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Aero Mongolia

Aero Mongolia

Aero Mongolia is one of the major airlines in Mongolia. Its head office is on the third floor of Chinggis Khaan International Airport in Ulan Bator. It operates domestic flights to eleven local destinations and operates international scheduled services to Irkutsk, Russia and Hohhot, Urumqi in China...

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Ahmad Fanakati

Ahmad Fanakati

Ahmad Fanākatī was a Muslim financial minister of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty.-History:He came from Fanakat , a town on the upper Syr Darya in Central Asia. Trusted by Chabui Khatun, Kublai's favorite wife, he was entrusted with state finances in 1262...

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Aimag

Aimag

Aimag is a Mongolian and Turkic word for a tribe.It is also used as a term for country subdivisions in Mongolia and China, see aimag .The name of the Aimak people in central Afghanistan derives from the same root....

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Aimags of Mongolia

Aimags of Mongolia

Mongolia is divided into 21 aimags . Each aimag is subdivided into several sums. The name aimag is derived from the Mongolian and Turkic languages word for "tribe". The modern aimags were established since 1921...

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Kumis

Kumis, also spelled kumiss or koumiss in English is a fermented dairy product traditionally made from mare's milk. The drink remains important to the peoples of the Central Asian steppes, of Turkic and Mongol origin: Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Yakuts, Mongols and Kalmyks...

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Alioramus

Alioramus

Alioramus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of Asia. The type A. remotus, is known from a partial skull and three metatarsals recovered from Mongolian sediments which were deposited in a humid floodplain between 70 and 65 million years ago. These...

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Altaic languages

Altaic languages

Altaic is a proposed language family that includes the Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, and Japonic language families and the Korean language isolate. These languages are spoken in a wide arc stretching from northeast Asia through Central Asia to Anatolia and eastern Europe...

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Altan Khan

Altan Khan

Altan Khan , whose given name was Anda , was the ruler of the Tümet Mongols and de facto ruler of the Right Wing, or western tribes, of the Mongols...

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Altan Khan of the Khalkha

Altan Khan of the Khalkha

The Altan Khans ruled north-western Mongolia from about 1609 to 1691 at the latest. Altan Khan of Khalkha also known as Altan Khan of Khotogoid ruled over the Khotogoids in northwestern Mongolia and belonged to the Left Wing of the Khalkha Mongols...

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Altan Tobchi

Altan Tobchi

The Altan Tobchi, or Golden Summary , is a 17th century Mongolian chronicle written by Guush Luvsandanzan. Its full title is "Herein is contained the Golden Summary of the Principles of Statecraft as established by the Ancient Khans". Mongolian scholars typically call the work the "Lu Altan Tovch"...

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Altay Mountains

Altay Mountains

The Altai Mountains are a mountain range in East-Central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together, and where the rivers Irtysh and Ob have their sources. The Altai Mountains are known as the original locus of the speakers of Turkic as well as other members of the proposed...

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Amarbayasgalant Khiid

Amarbayasgalant Khiid

The Monastery of Tranquil Felicity once one of the three largest Buddhist centres in Mongolia is located near the Selenge River in the Iven Valley, at the foot of Mount Büren-Khaan in Baruunbüren sum of Selenge Province in northern Mongolia. The architectural design belongs to G. Zanabazar and...

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Rinchinnyamyn Amarjargal

Rinchinnyamyn Amarjargal

Rinchinnyam Amarjargal was Prime Minister of Mongolia from July 30, 1999 to July 26, 2000. He is a leading member of the Democratic Party.- Early years and education :Amarjargal was born in Ulaanbaatar in 1961...

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Altan Tobchi

Altan Tobchi

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Amir Qazaghan

Amir Qazaghan

Qazaghan was the amir of the Qara'unas and the effective ruler of the Chagatai ulus .Qazaghan's lineage is mostly unknown; it is possible that he became head of the Qara'unas through appointment instead of inheritance In 1345 he rebelled against his sovereign, the Chagatai Khan Qazan, but was...

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Anandyn Amar

Anandyn Amar

Anandyn Amar , was the head of state of the Mongolian People’s Republic from 1932 to 1936 as well as prime minister from 1928–1930 and again from 1936-1939.-Early life and career:...

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Architecture of Mongolia

Architecture of Mongolia

The traditional Mongolian dwelling is known as yurt . According to Mongolian artist and art critic N. Chultem, yurts and tents were the basis for the development of traditional Mongolian architecture. In the 16th and 17th centuries, lamaseries were built throughout the country. Many of them started...

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Artificial Lake Castle

Artificial Lake Castle

The Artificial Lake Castle was built in 1969, when the National Amusement Park was established in the centre of the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar....

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Arvaikheer Airport

Arvaikheer Airport

Arvaikheer Airport is a public airport located in Arvaikheer, the capital of Övörkhangai Province in Mongolia.- External links :*...

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Asasekiryū Tarō

Asasekiryu Taro

Asasekiryū Tarō is a sumo wrestler. He made his debut in January 2000, reaching the top division in March 2003. He has won four special prizes, and has spent a total of five tournaments to date in the titled sanyaku ranks...

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Asashoryu Akinori

Asashōryū Akinori

is a former sumo wrestler from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. He was the 68th yokozuna in the history of the sport in Japan and became the first Mongol to reach sumo's highest rank in January 2003. He was one of the most successful yokozuna ever. In 2005 he became the first man to win all six official...

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Asud

Asud

Asud were a guard and military group of Alani origin. The Mongol clan Asud is the plural of As, the Arabic name for the Alans.After the Mongol invasion of Rus, many Alans submitted to the Mongol Empire. Some of them resisted the Golden Horde longer. Many warriors moved from Northern Caucasia to...

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Bagakhangai

Bagakhangai

Bagakhangai is one of nine düüregs of the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator. It is subdivided into two khoroos , Ondor Tolgoi khoroo and Bagakhangai khoroo....

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Baganuur

Baganuur

Baganuur is one of nine düüregs of the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. It is subdivided into four khoroos .Baganuur is actually a separate city, located as an exclave of 620 km² at the border between the Töv and Khentii aimags. It was created as a Soviet military base.Later Soviet Union...

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Baiju

Baiju

Baiju was a Mongol commander in Persia appointed by Ögedei Khan to succeed Chormagan, and expand Mongol power further in that area....

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Balingiin Tserendorj

Balingiin Tserendorj

Balingiin Tserendorj was a Mongolian political figure and the first Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Mongolia from 1924 to 1928.-Early life and career:...

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Barlas

Barlas

The Barlas were a Mongol - later Turkicized - nomadic confederation in Central Asia and the chief tribe of the Timurids who ruled much of Central Asia, Iran, and South Asia in the Middle Ages.- Origins :According to the Secret History of the Mongols, written during the reign of Ögedei Khan, the...

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Baruun-Urt

Baruun-Urt

Baruun-Urt is a town in eastern Mongolia and the capital of Sükhbaatar Province. The town with its vicinities creates a sum of Sükhbaatar Province. The Baruun-Urt sum area is 59 km², population 15,549, population density 265 per km²...

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Baruun-Urt Airport

Baruun-Urt Airport

Baruun-Urt Airport is a public airport located in Baruun-Urt, the capital of Sükhbaatar Province in Mongolia....

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Baruunturuun, Uvs

Baruunturuun, Uvs

Baruunturuun is a Sum in Uvs Province of Mongolia.It is the heart land of the grains of the province. The center lies on the bank of Turuun River. The sum is also one of the most populous area in the province. MIAT Mongolian Airlines flew to Barrunturuun directly from Ulan Bator until 2005, but...

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Batu Khan

Batu Khan

Batu Khan was a Mongol ruler and founder of the Ulus of Jochi , the sub-khanate of the Mongol Empire. Batu was a son of Jochi and grandson of Genghis Khan. His ulus was the chief state of the Golden Horde , which ruled Rus and the Caucasus for around 250 years, after also destroying the armies...

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Bayan of the Baarin

Bayan of the Baarin

Bayan of the Baarin , also known as "Bayan chingsang" or, to Marco Polo, as "Bayan Hundred Eyes" , was a Mongol general...

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Charles Bawden

Charles Bawden

Charles Roskelly Bawden is Emeritus Professor of Mongolian in the University of London.From 1955 to 1984, he was a Lecturer, Reader, and Professor of Mongolian at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London....

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Bayangol

Bayangol

Bayangol is one of nine Düüregs of the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar. It is divided into 20 Khoroos . It was previously called October District during the communist era.Bayangol has a population of 160,479....

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Bayankhongor

Bayankhongor

- Transportation :The Bayankhongor Airport has two runways, one of them paved, and is served by regular flights to Ulan Bator....

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Bayankhongor Airport

Bayankhongor Airport

Bayankhongor Airport is a public airport located in Bayankhongor, the capital of Bayankhongor Province in Mongolia.- Airlines :- External links :* Bayankhongor* Bayankhongor...

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Bayanzürkh

Bayanzürkh

Bayanzürkh is one of nine Düüregs of the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. It is subdivided into 20 Khoroos .It is the largest district in the capital and lies in the southeast of the city. It was established in 1965. In 2006 it had an approximate population of 184,690 in 44,138 households...

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Sanjaagiin Bayar

Sanjaagiin Bayar

Sanjaagiin Bayar is a Mongolian politician who was General Secretary of the Communist Party of Mongolia from 22 November 2007 to 8 April 2009, and Prime Minister of Mongolia from 22 November 2007 to 29 October 2009. He announced on October 26, 2009, that he was going to resign his position as...

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Sorghaghtani Beki

Sorghaghtani Beki

Sorghaghtani Beki or Bekhi , also written Sorkaktani, Sorkhokhtani, Sorkhogtani, Siyurkuktiti; , a Kereyid princess of the Nestorian Christian faith and daughter-in-law of Temüjin , was one of the most powerful and competent women in the Mongol Empire...

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Biligtü Khan

Biligtü Khan

Biligtü Khan, born Ayushiridara , was a ruler of the Northern Yuan Dynasty in Mongolia...

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Bogd Khan

Bogd Khan

The Bogd Khan was enthroned as the Great Khaan of Mongolia on 29 December 1911, when Outer Mongolia declared independence from the Qing Dynasty after the Xinhai Revolution. He was born in the Kham region of eastern Tibet, today's Sichuan province of the People's Republic of China...

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Bogd Khan Uul

Bogd Khan Uul

The Bogd Khan Mountain is a mountain in Mongolia that overlooks the nation's capital, Ulaanbaatar, from a height of 3000 feet above and to the south of the city.- World Heritage Status :...

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Bogdo Zanabazar

Bogdo Zanabazar

Undur Geghen Zanabazar , born Eshidorji , was the first Jebtsundamba Khutuktu, the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism for the Khalkha in Outer Mongolia. His name 'Zanabazar' is the Mongolian rendition of the Sanskrit 'Jnana-vajra' meaning thunderbolt of wisdom...

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Borjigin

Borjigin

Borjigin , also known as the Altan urug , were the imperial clan of Genghis Khan and his successors....

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Bulgan (city)

Bulgan (city)

Bulgan is a town, administrative centre of Bulgan province of Mongolia. Bulgan sum has a population of 11,984 , 12,323, town proper has a population of 11,198...

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Bulgan Airport

Bulgan Airport

Bulgan Airport is a public airport located in Bulgan, the capital of Bulgan Province in Mongolia.- Airlines :*MIAT Mongolian Airlines - External links :* Bulgan airport...

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Bulgan Province

Bulgan Province

Bulgan is one of the 21 aimags of Mongolia, located in northern Mongolia. Its capital is also named Bulgan.- Geography :The aimag is surrounded by the aimags Khövsgöl in the northwest, Arkhangai in the southwest, Övörkhangai in the south, Töv in the southeast, and Selenge in the northeast...

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Bulganbaatar

Bulganbaatar

Bulganbaatar is a Central Asian mammal genus from the Upper Cretaceous. It existed in the company of dinosaurs. This animal was a member of the extinct order Multituberculata. It's within the suborder Cimolodonta and is a member of the superfamily Djadochtatherioidea. The genus Bulganbaatar was...

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Buryats

Buryats

The Buryats or Buriyads , numbering approximately 436,000, are the largest ethnic minority group in Siberia and are mainly concentrated in their homeland, the Buryat Republic, a federal subject of Russia...

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Buryat language

Buryat language

Buryat is a Mongolic variety spoken by the Buryats that is either classified as a language or as a major dialect group of Mongolian. The majority of Buryat speakers live in Russia along the northern border of Mongolia where it is an official language in the Buryat Republic, Ust-Orda Buryatia and...

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Buuz

Buuz

Buuz are a type of Mongolian steamed dumpling filled with minced mutton, or beef meat. The meat is flavoured with onion or garlic and salted. Occasionally, they are flavoured with sprouted fennel seeds and other seasonal herbs...

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Büri

Büri

Buri was a son of Mutugen and a grandson of Chagatai khan. His name - Buri - means Wolf. According to Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, Buri's mother was a wife of Chagatai khan's one official. She was a beauty, and Mutuken was attracted by her while she served in Khan's ger. Mutuken made her pregnant...

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Byambasuren Davaa

Byambasuren Davaa

Byambasuren Davaa, really Davaagiin Byambasüren , is a Mongolian film maker currently residing in Germany....

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Börte

Börte

Börte was the first wife of Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol Empire. Börte became the head of the first Court of Genghis Khan, and Grand Empress of his Empire. Little is known about the details of her early life, but she was betrothed to him at a young age, married at 17, and then...

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Mongol invasion of Burma

Mongol invasion of Burma

After the conquest of China, Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty and the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, invaded the Pagan Kingdom of Burma in 1277 and 1283. However, the Yuan armies later again invaded Burma several times in order to assert supremacy over the territory.- Initial...

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C1 Television

-History:C1 was founded in June 2005. According to the station, it is the first in Mongolia to use fully digital video processing.- TV Programming :C1 Television broadcasts a variety of programming. The following are noteworthy:...

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Catopsbaatar

Catopsbaatar

Catopsbaatar is an extinct genus of mammal that lived in Mongolia during the Upper Cretaceous Period. It coexisted with some of the late dinosaurs. This animal was a member of the extinct order Multituberculata within the Suborder Cimolodonta and family Djadochtatheriidae.The genus Catopsbaatar...

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Central Asia

Central Asia

Central Asia is a core region of the Asian continent from the Caspian Sea in the west, China in the east, Afghanistan in the south, and Russia in the north...

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Chadraabalyn Lodoidamba

Chadraabalyn Lodoidamba

Chadraabalyn Lodoidamba was a Mongolian writer.He was born in Govi-Altai Province in 1917. In 1954 he graduated from National University of Mongolia, the same year that his first story "Malgaitai Chono" was published....

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Chagatai Khan

Chagatai Khan

Chagatai Khan was the second son of Genghis Khan and first khan and origin of the names of the Chagatai Khanate, Chagatai language and Chagatai Turks....

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Chagatai Khanate

Chagatai Khanate

The Chagatai Khanate was a Turko-Mongol khanate that comprised the lands ruled by Chagatai Khan , second son of the Great Khan Genghis Khan, and his descendents and successors...

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Camerton (boy band)

Camerton (boy band)

Camerton was a Mongolian boy band. They were formed on June 24, 1995. The same year they won the Pentatonic award, a music award in Mongolia, as the best debut band. Since then they have won many more awards...

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The Cave of the Yellow Dog

The Cave of the Yellow Dog

The Cave of the Yellow Dog is a Mongolian/German film written and directed by Byambasuren Davaa. The film was submitted as Mongolia's contender for the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...

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Chingeltei

Chingeltei

Chingeltei is one of nine Düüregs of the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar. It is subdivided into 18 Khoroos .Chingeltei is located in the north, at the foot of one of the four mountains of Ulaanbaatar, the Chingeltei Uul....

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Chinggis Khaan International Airport

Chinggis Khaan International Airport

Chinggis Khaan International Airport is the international airport serving Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It is 18 km southwest of the capital. It is the largest international air facility in the country...

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Choghtu Khong Tayiji

Choghtu Khong Tayiji

Tsoghtu Khong Tayiji, born Tümengken , was a noble in Northern Khalkha. He expanded into Amdo to help the Karma Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism but was overthrown by Güshi Khan, who supported the rival Geluk sect.He established a base on the Tuul river...

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Choibalsan Airport

Choibalsan airport

Choibalsan Airport is a public airport located in Choibalsan, the capital of Dornod Province in Mongolia. A new passenger building was completed in 2001.- Airlines and destinations :...

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Temur Cholon

Temur Cholon

Temur Cholon was a Mongolian folk music singer. He was noted for his soothing voice and his music which blended traditional Mongolian instruments with more modern influences such as jazz. Cholon was also a social activist, being involved in a number of charitable causes. He died of a heart attack...

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Chormaqan

Chormaqan

Chormaqan was one of the most famous generals of the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan and Ögedei Khan. He was also a member of the keshik....

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Chukchi people

Chukchi people

The Chukchi, or Chukchee , ) are an indigenous people inhabiting the Chukchi Peninsula and the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea region of the Arctic Ocean within the Russian Federation. They speak the Chukchi language...

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Chulsanbaatar

Chulsanbaatar

Chulsanbaatar is a genus of mammal from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. It lived during the Mesozoic, also known as the "age of the dinosaurs." This small creature was a member of the extinct order of Multituberculata and is within the suborder Cimolodonta. The genus Chulsanbaatar was named by...

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Cinema of Mongolia

Cinema of Mongolia

The cinema of Mongolia has been strongly influenced by the cinema of Russia, which differentiates it from cinematic developments in the rest of Asia.- History :...

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Civic Will Republican Party

Civic Will Republican Party

The Civil Will Party is a political party in Mongolia which was established in 2000. The chairwoman is S. Oyun. The party's name is a reference to the name of S.Oyun's murdered brother S. Zorig, one of the leaders of the 1990 democratic movement....

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Coat of arms of Mongolia

Coat of arms of Mongolia

The state emblem of Mongolia is used by the government of Mongolia as its symbol of state. It is officially used for example on documents such as Mongolian passports, and government and embassy placards.- Description :...

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Constitution of Mongolia

Constitution of Mongolia

Constitution of Mongolia is the constitution of Mongolia.It was adopted on January 13. 1992, put into force on February 12, and amended in 1999 and 2001. The new constitution established a parliamentary democracy in Mongolia, guaranteeing freedom of religion, rights, travel, expression,...

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Communications in Mongolia

Communications in Mongolia

Information communication technologies in Mongolia face unique challenges. Because Mongolia is sparsely populated and a significant portion of the population still lives a nomadic lifestyle, it has been difficult for many traditional ICTs to make headway into Mongolian society...

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Culture of Mongolia

Culture of Mongolia

Mongolian culture has been heavily influenced by the Mongol nomadic way of life. Other important influences are from Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism, and from China. Since the 20th century, Russian and, via Russia, European culture have had a strong effect on Mongolia...

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Cyrillic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...

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Han Chinese in Mongolia

Han Chinese in Mongolia

Ethnic Chinese in Mongolia can be subdivided into three groups: Mongolian citizens of ethnic Chinese background, temporary residents with Chinese citizenship, and permanent residents with Chinese citizenship....

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Roman Catholicism in Mongolia

Roman Catholicism in Mongolia

The Roman Catholic Church in Mongolia is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome...

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The Cave of the Yellow Dog

The Cave of the Yellow Dog

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Dalanzadgad

Dalanzadgad is the capital of Ömnögovi Aimag in Mongolia. It is located south of the national capital Ulaanbaatar. The altitude of the city center is 1,470 meters .As of 2006, its population is 14,000.-Transportation:...

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Dalanzadgad Airport

Dalanzadgad Airport

Dalanzadgad Airport is a public airport located in Dalanzadgad, the capital of Ömnögovi Province in Mongolia.While Dalanzadgad Airport is classified as an international airport, there are no scheduled flights outside of Mongolia.- External links :...

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Jalkhanz Khutagt Sodnomyn Damdinbazar

Jalkhanz Khutagt Sodnomyn Damdinbazar

The Jalkhanz Khutagt Sodnomyn Damdinbazar was a high lamaist incarnation in northwestern Mongolia, and played a high-profile role in the country's independence movement...

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Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj

Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj

Borjigin Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj , was a Mongolian poet, writer, and playwright, and founder of the Mongolian Writer's Union. He is considered one of the founding fathers of modern Mongolian literature and Mongolia's first "classic Socialist" writer.- Life :...

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Dayan Khan

Dayan Khan

Dayan Khan , was a Mongol khan who reunited the Mongols under Chinggisid supremacy in the Northern Yuan Dynasty in Mongolia...

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Byambasuren Davaa

Byambasuren Davaa

Byambasuren Davaa, really Davaagiin Byambasüren , is a Mongolian film maker currently residing in Germany....

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Davst, Uvs

Davst, Uvs

Davst is a sum of Uvs Province in western Mongolia, bordering to Russia in the north.The reason it is called "salty" is that there is the biggest natural salt rock deposit in the country. The sum occupies the northern tip of Uvs Nuur which is 5 times saltier than the ocean.Border crossing to...

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Delüün

Delüün

Delüün is a sum of Bayan-Ölgii Province in western Mongolia. It is primarily inhabited by ethnic Kazakhs....

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Demchugdongrub

Demchugdongrub

Prince Demchugdongrub was the leader of a Mongol independence movement in Inner Mongolia. He was the chairman of Mengjiang, a Japanese puppet state in World War II....

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Democratic Party (Mongolia)

Democratic Party (Mongolia)

The Democratic Party is a conservative liberal and libertarian political party in Mongolia. Its primary goals are the continued transformation of Mongolia into an open and democratic society.- History :...

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Demographics of Mongolia

Demographics of Mongolia

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Mongolia, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population....

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Descent from Genghis Khan

Descent from Genghis Khan

Descent from Genghis Khan is traceable primarily in Central Asia. His four sons and other immediate descendants are famous by names and by deeds. Later Asian potentates attempted to claim descent from the House of Borjigin even on flimsy grounds. In the 14th century, valid sources all but dried...

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Dolgorsüren Serjbudee

Dolgorsuren Serjbudee

Dolgorsürengiin Serjbüdee is a Mongolian professional wrestler who wrestled for New Japan Pro Wrestling. He goes by the ring name Blue Wolf.-Career:Dolgorsürengiin Serjbüdee is the brother of Dolgorsürengiin Sumiyaabazar, a high ranking Mongolian...

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Dolgorsüren Sumiyabazar

Dolgorsuren Sumiyabazar

Dolgorsürengiin "Slippery" Sumiyaabazar is a high ranking Mongolian traditional wrestler.Sumiyaabazar competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in 100kg Freestyle Wrestling losing to Zaza Tkeshelashvili in the 2nd match...

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Dongxiang language

Dongxiang language

The Santa language, also known as Dongxiang , is a Mongolic language spoken by the Dongxiang people in northwest China.-Grammar:In common with other Mongolic languages, Dongxiang is basically a subject–object–verb language...

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Dongxiang people

Dongxiang people

The Dongxiang people are one of 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China...

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Donoi Airport

Donoi Airport

Donoi Airport is a public airport located in Uliastai, the capital of Zavkhan Province in Mongolia. It is also called New Uliastai Airport....

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Dornod Province

Dornod Province

Dornod is the easternmost of the 21 aimags of Mongolia. Its capital is Choibalsan.- Population :Halh are the ethnic majority of the Dornod aimag, but Buryat ethnic group is 22.8% of population total concentrated in the north-eastern sums of Dashbalbar, Tsagaan-Ovoo, Bayan-Uul, Bayandun and...

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Dornogovi Province

Dornogovi Province

Dornogovi is one of the 21 Aimags of Mongolia. It is located in the southeast of the country.-Administrative Subdivision:* - tosgon .** - The aimag capital Sainshand-References:...

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Drogön Chögyal Phagpa

Drogön Chögyal Phagpa

Zhogön Qögyä Pagba, Zhogoin Qoigyai Phagspa or Drogön Chögyal Phagpa , born Lochö Gyäcän or Lochoi Gyaicain , was the fifth leader of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. He became the first vice-king of Tibet and played an important political role...

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Dundgovi Province

Dundgovi Province

Dundgovi is one of the 21 aimags of Mongolia. It is located in the south of the country, approximately south of Ulaanbaatar. Its capital is Mandalgovi.- Climate :...

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Duolun

Duolun

Dolon Nor , is a town and the county seat of Duolun County, Xilin Gol League in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous region, China. It is of historical importance because the remnants of Xanadu, the summer capital of Kubilai Khan and the following Mongol emperors of the Yuan Dynasty , are located some 17...

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Düüreg

Düüreg

A düüreg is a municipal district in the capital of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar. Each of the nine düüregs is subdivided into khoroos.Each düüreg also serves as a constituency that elects one or more representatives into the State Great Khural, the national parliament.Although administratively part of...

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Economy of Mongolia

Economic activity in Mongolia has traditionally been based on agriculture and the breeding of livestock. Mongolia also has extensive mineral deposits: copper, coal, molybdenum, tin, tungsten, and gold account for a large part of industrial production...

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Eight Banners

Eight Banners

The Eight Banners were administrative divisions into which all Manchu families were placed. They provided the basic framework for the Manchu military organization...

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Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Elections in Mongolia

Elections in Mongolia

Elections in Mongolia gives information on election and election results in Mongolia.Mongolia elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a four year term by the people. The State Great Khural has had 76 members, elected for a four...

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Eljigidei

Eljigidei

Eljigidei was a Mongol commander in Persia, fl. He supposedly commanded a strong contingent when Chingis Khan invaded Khwarizm in 1219–1223. Ogedei was close to Eljihidey. That's why Eljigidei was given command over the Mongol forces in Persia, by the new khan Güyük in 1246, replacing Baiju...

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Epic of King Gesar-
Erdeni Tobchi

Erdeni Tobchi

The Erdeniin Tobchi is a national chronicle and set of Mongolian judicial laws over historical content in the 17th century. It was written in 1662....

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Nambaryn Enkhbayar

Nambaryn Enkhbayar

Nambaryn Enkhbayar is a Mongolian political figure. He was the Prime Minister of Mongolia from 2000 to 2004, the Speaker of Parliament from 2004 to 2005, and the President of Mongolia from 2005 to 2009...

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Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan -
Luvsangiin Erdenechuluun -
Erdenet

Erdenet

Erdenet is the third-largest city in Mongolia and the capital of the aimag of Orkhon.Located in the northern part of the country, it lies in a valley between the Selenge and Orkhon rivers about 150 miles northwest of Ulan Bator, the capital...

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Erdene Zuu monastery

Erdene Zuu monastery

The Erdene Zuu Monastery is probably the most ancient surviving Buddhist monastery in Mongolia. It is in Övörkhangai Province, near the town of Kharkhorin and adjacent to the ancient city of Karakorum...

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Erdeni Tobchi

Erdeni Tobchi

The Erdeniin Tobchi is a national chronicle and set of Mongolian judicial laws over historical content in the 17th century. It was written in 1662....

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Eson xorgol

Eson xorgol

- Equipment :Traditionally, the game is played with a field of 2x5 pits and 90 goat droppings. Of course, some prefer to play the game with 10 cups and any 90 undifferentiated objects, such as stones or glass beads ....

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Ethnic Mongols in China

Ethnic Mongols in China

Mongols in China are citizens of the People's Republic of China who are ethnic Mongols. They form one of the 55 ethnic minorities officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. There are approximately 5.8 million ethnic Mongols living in China. Most of them live in Inner Mongolia,...

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Eznis Airways

Eznis Airways

Eznis Airways LLC is a scheduled and charter airline based in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It is the largest domestic airline with services to a number of Mongolian domestic points, with an international route to China and Russia .With its main base located at...

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Family tree of Genghis Khan

-Diagrammatic family tree:Only selected, prominent members are shown. Khagans are in bold.Wada Sei did pioneer work on this field, and Honda Minobu and Okada Hidehiro modified it, utilizing newly discovered Persian records and Mongol chronicles.-Detailed family tree:There was Börte Chino and his...

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Flag of Mongolia

Flag of Mongolia

The current flag of Mongolia was adopted on February 12, 1992. It is similar to the flag of 1949, except for the removal of the socialist star....

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Flaming Cliffs

Flaming Cliffs

The Flaming Cliffs site, really Bayanzag , is a region of the Gobi Desert in the Ömnögovi Province of Mongolia, in which important fossil finds have been made. It was given this name by American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, who visited in the 1920s. The area is most famous for yielding the...

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Foreign relations of Mongolia

Foreign relations of Mongolia

Mongolia has diplomatic and foreign relations with many countries. It seeks a neutral and cordial relations with many countries including in cultural and economic matters.-Egypt:...

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Franco-Mongol alliance

Franco-Mongol alliance

Franco-Mongol relations were established in the 13th century, as attempts were made towards forming a Franco-Mongol alliance between the Christian Crusaders and the Mongol Empire against various Muslim empires. Such an alliance would have seemed a logical choice: the Mongols were sympathetic to...

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Friendship Peak

Khüiten Peak

Hüiten Peak is the highest point in Mongolia, located in the far west of the country on the border with PRC. The Peak towers at the elevation of 4,374 m under the permanent snow-cap...

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Galsan Tschinag

Galsan Tschinag

Galsan Tschinag , born Irgit Shynykbai-oglu Dshurukuwaa, is internationally known as a Mongolian writer of novels, poems, and essays in the German language, though he hails from a Tuvan background...

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Ganbaataryn Tögsbayar

Ganbaataryn Tögsbayar

Ganbaataryn Tögsbayar is a Mongolian footballer, who plays as a striker for Selenge Press in Mongolia. He is a member and the top goalscorer of Mongolia national football team-External links:...

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Maidarzhavyn Ganzorig

Maidarzhavyn Ganzorig

Maidarzhavyn Ganzorig |Tsetserleg]], Mongolia) is a Mongolian scientist. In 1978, he participated in the Soviet Intercosmos program and trained for a Soyuz space flight.Ganzorig graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute in 1975...

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Gelenkhüü

Gelenkhüü

Gelenkhüü , full name Khainzangiin Gelenkhüü , also known as Gelenkhüü Shükherch , is a semi-legendary figure from Northern Mongolia...

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Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan , born Temujin and occasionally known by his temple name Taizu , was the founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death....

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Geography of Mongolia

Geography of Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in Northern Asia, strategically located between China and Russia. The terrain is one of mountains and rolling plateaus, with a high degree of relief. Overall, the land slopes from the high Altay Mountains of the west and the north to plains and depressions in the...

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Oghul Ghaimish

Oghul Qaimish

Oghul Qaimish was the principal wife of Güyük Khan and ruled as regent over the Mongol empire after the death of her husband in 1248. She was a descendant from the Mergid tribe. However, H.H.Howorth believed that she was an Oirat.- Life :...

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Gobi Desert

Gobi Desert

The Gobi is a large desert region in Asia. It covers parts of northern and northwestern China, and of southern Mongolia. The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the Altai Mountains and the grasslands and steppes of Mongolia on the north, by the Hexi Corridor and Tibetan Plateau to the...

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Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park

Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park

right|thumb|A [[yurt|ger]] with the [[Gurvan Saikhan Uul|Gurvan Saikhan Mountains]] behindGobi Gurvansaikhan National Park is a national park in southern Mongolia. The park was established in 1993, and expanded to its current size in 2000...

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Golden Horde

Golden Horde

The Golden Horde was a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate that formed the north-western sector of the Mongol Empire...

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Öndör Gongor

Öndör Gongor

Öndör Gongor was a very tall man in early-20th century Mongolia. He was measured 2,36 m high by Roy Chapman Andrews, but some other sources even give 2,45 m . He is known all over Mongolia, and also mentioned or pictured in some accounts of contemporary western travellers.According to an...

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Govisümber Province

Govisümber Province

Govisümber is one of the 21 aimags of Mongolia. It is located in the center of the country. Its capital is Choir.- Administrative Subdivision :* - The aimag capital Choir- References :...

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Goyol Fashion Festival

Goyol Fashion Festival

Goyol is an annual fashion event held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It started in 1988 and the last 21st event took place on 13-15 of December 2008. Foreign designers and models participate in the show since 2000. The grand prix of Goyol-2007 was won by designer of Gobi company B. Nyamsuren, and model...

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Greater Mongolia

Greater Mongolia

Greater Mongolia as a region, is the contiguous territories primarily inhabited by ethnic Mongols. It approximately includes the modern state of Mongolia, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China , and the Buryat Republic as well as a few smaller territories in...

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Gurvan Saikhan Uul -
Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa -
Güyük Khan

Güyük Khan

Güyük was the third Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. As the eldest son of Ögedei Khan and a grandson of Genghis Khan, he reigned from 1246 to 1248...

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Golden Horde

Golden Horde

The Golden Horde was a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate that formed the north-western sector of the Mongol Empire...

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Hakuho Sho

Hakuho Sho

is a professional sumo wrestler from Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Making his debut in March 2001, he reached the top makuuchi division in May 2004. On May 30, 2007 at the age of 22 he became the second native of Mongolia, and the fourth non-Japanese overall, to be promoted to the highest rank in sumo,...

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Han Chinese in Mongolia

Han Chinese in Mongolia

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Haner language

Haner language

The Han'er language is a pre-modern Sino-Korean term used to denote a medieval Chinese language heavily influenced by non-Han Chinese languages, especially Mongolian, during an era of non-Han Chinese domination of China...

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Hans-Peter Vietze

Hans-Peter Vietze

Hans-Peter Vietze was a German Mongolist. He was the editor of a Mongolian-German dictionary, and worked as translator on a broad range of occasions....

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Harhiraa

Harhiraa

Harhiraa is a mountain of the Altai Mountains and is located in the Uvs Province in Mongolia. It has an elevation of .- External links :* - See also :* List of mountains in Mongolia* List of Ultras of Central Asia...

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Hasagt Hairhan

Hasagt Hairhan

Hasagt Hairhan is a mountain of the Gobi-Altai Mountains and located in the Govi-Altai Province in Mongolia. It has elevation of 3,578 metres ....

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History of Mongolia

History of Mongolia

The area of what is now Mongolia has been ruled by various nomadic empires, including the Xiongnu, the Xianbei, the Nirun, the Gökturks, and others. The Mongol Empire was founded by Genghis Khan in 1206. After the collapse of the Yuan Dynasty in 1368, the Mongols returned to their earlier patterns...

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History of modern Mongolia

History of modern Mongolia

Following the collapse of the Communist regime, Mongolia's first free, multi-party elections for a bicameral parliament were held on July 29, 1990. The Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party MPRP won 85% of the seats...

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Hoelun

Hoelun

Hoelun was the mother of Genghis Khan and the wife of his father Yesugei, the chief of the Khamag Mongol confederation.-Early life:...

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Hohhot

Hohhot

Hohhot , is a city in north-central China and the capital of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, serving as the region's administrative, economic, and cultural centre....

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Hong Bok-won

Hong Bok-won

Hong Bok-won was a Goryeo commander who later served as an administrator of the Mongol Empire.He was born to Hong Daesun , an officer in northwestern Korea. When the Mongols intruded into Goryeo to attack Khitan rebel groups in 1218, Daesun went over to the Mongols...

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Hong Dagu

Hong Dagu

Hong Dagu was a Korean commander of the Yuan Dynasty. His given name was Jun-gi , but his childhood zi Dagu is far more famous.-See also:* List of Goryeo people* History of China...

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Hulagu Khan

Hulagu Khan

Hulagu Khan, also known as Hülegü, Hulegu , was a Mongol ruler who conquered much of Southwest Asia...

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Mongolian horse

Mongolian horse

The Mongol horse is the native horse breed of Mongolia. The breed is purported to be largely unchanged since the time of Genghis Khan. Nomads living in the traditional Mongol fashion still hold more than 3 million animals, which outnumber the country's human population...

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Przewalski's Horse

Przewalski's Horse

Przewalski's Horse or Dzungarian Horse, is a rare and endangered subspecies of wild horse native to the steppes of central Asia, specifically China and Mongolia.At one time extinct in the wild, it has been reintroduced to its native habitat in Mongolia at the Khustain Nuruu...

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The Secret History of the Mongols

The Secret History of the Mongols

The Secret History of the Mongols is the oldest surviving Mongolian-language literary work...

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White Horde

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Ikh Khorig

The Ikh Khorig, or Great Taboo, is a 240 km² area in the Khentii Aimag of Mongolia, believed by some to be the location of Genghis Khan’s grave...

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Ilkhanate

Ilkhanate

The Ilkhanate, also spelled Il-khanate , was a Mongol khanate established in Azerbaijan and Persia in the 13th century, considered a part of the Mongol Empire...

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Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in the northern region of the country. Inner Mongolia shares an international border with the countries of Mongolia and the Russian Federation...

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Institute of finance and economics of Mongolia

Institute of finance and economics of Mongolia

The Institute of Finance and Economics is one of the largest educational institutions of Mongolia. The institute is on the banks of Selbe river at the heart of Ulaanbaatar city. The institute offers bachelor's and master's programs.-History:...

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Mongol invasions of India

Mongol invasions of India

The Mongol Empire launched several Mongol invasions into the Indian subcontinent from 1221 to 1327. The Mongols made Kashmir their vassal state. However, the campaigns against the Delhi Sultanate proved unsuccessful, in spite of constant Mongol incursions....

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Islam in Mongolia

Islam in Mongolia

Islam in Mongolia is practiced by approximately 5% of the population. It is practised by the ethnic Kazakhs of Bayan-Ölgii Province and Khovd Province aimag in western Mongolia...

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Jalkhanz Khutagt Sodnomyn Damdinbazar

The Jalkhanz Khutagt Sodnomyn Damdinbazar was a high lamaist incarnation in northwestern Mongolia, and played a high-profile role in the country's independence movement...

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Jamuqa

Jamuqa

Jamukha was a Mongol military and political leader and the chief rival to Temüjin in the unification of the Mongol tribes....

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Janlavyn Narantsatsralt

Janlavyn Narantsatsralt

Janlavyn Narantsatsralt was a Mongol politician. He served as Prime Minister of Mongolia from 1998-12-09 until 1999-07-22.- Life :...

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Jasagh

Jasagh

A jasagh was the head of a Mongol banner or khoshun during the Qing Dynasty and Boghda Khaanate of Mongolia. The term is rendered "zhasake" in contemporary Chinese documents. The position was held by hereditary succession by certain Mongol princes, most of whom were descendants of Genghis Khan...

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Jebe

Jebe

Chepe Noyan was one of the prominent Noyans of Genghis Khan. His clan was Besud, which belonged to the Taichud tribe, which was at the time of Genghis Khan under Targudai Khiriltug's leadership....

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Jinong

Jinong

Jinong was a title of the Mongols. It was derived from Chinese Jinwang although some historians have suggested it originates from Qinwang...

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Jochi

Jochi

Jochi was the eldest of the Mongol chieftain Genghis Khan's four sons by his principal wife Börte. An accomplished military leader, he participated in his father's conquest of Central Asia, along with his brothers and uncles.-Early life:...

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Mongol invasion of Java

Mongol invasion of Java

In 1293, Kublai Khan, the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire and the founder of the Yuan Dynasty, sent a large invasion fleet to Java with 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers...

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Battle of the Kalka River

The Battle of the Kalka River took place on May 31, 1223, between the Mongol Empire and Kiev, Galich, and several other Rus' principalities and the Cumans, under the command of Mstislav the Bold and Mstislav III of Kiev...

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Battle of Khalkhin Gol

Battle of Khalkhin Gol

The Battles of Khalkhyn Gol was the decisive engagement of the undeclared Soviet–Japanese Border Wars fought among the Soviet Union, Mongolia and the Empire of Japan in 1939. The conflict was named after the river Khalkhyn Gol, which passes through the battlefield...

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Kalmyk language

Kalmyk language

The Kalmyk language , or Russian Oirat, is the native speech of the Kalmyk people of the Republic of Kalmykia, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. In Russia, it is the normative form of the Oirat language , which belongs to the Mongolic language family...

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Kara-Khitan Khanate

Kara-Khitan Khanate

The Kara-Khitan Khanate, or Western Liao was a Khitan empire in Central Asia. The dynasty was founded by Yelü Dashi, who led the remnants of the Liao Dynasty to Central Asia after fleeing from the Jurchen conquest of their homeland in North and Northeast of modern day China...

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Karakorum

Karakorum

Karakorum was the capital of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century, and of the Northern Yuan in the 14-15th century. Its ruins lie in the northwestern corner of the Övörkhangai Province of Mongolia, near today's town of Kharkhorin, and adjacent to the Erdene Zuu monastery...

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Khalkha

Khalkha

Khalkha is the largest subgroup of Mongol people in Mongolia since 15th century. The Khalkha together with Tsahar, Ordos and Tumed, were directly ruled by the Altan Urag Khans until the 20th century; unlike the Oirat people who were ruled by the Dzungar nobles or the Khorchins who were ruled by...

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Khalkha dialect

Khalkha dialect

The Khalkha dialect is a dialect of Mongolian widely spoken in Mongolia and according to some classifications includes such South Mongolian varieties such as Shiliin gol, Ulaanchab and Sönid...

Khalkhyn Gol

Halh River is a river in eastern Mongolia and Inner Mongolia in northern China.The river's source is in the Greater Khingan mountains of Inner Mongolia. By the mouth it splits into two distributaries. The left one feeds the Buir Lake and next via this lake continues as Orchun Gol...

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Khan

Khan (title)

Khan is an originally Altaic and subsequently Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler, widely used by medieval nomadic Turko-Mongol tribes living to the north of China. 'Khan' is also seen as a title in the Xianbei confederation for their chief between 283 and 289...

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Khanui River

Khanui River

Khanui River is a river flowing down through the valleys of the Khangai Mountains in central Mongolia....

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Kharkhorin

Kharkhorin

Kharkhorin is a city and sum center in the Övörkhangai Province in Mongolia. Sum population was 13,828 , 13,964 , 13,496. Kharkhorin city population is 8,977 , city area is 20.5 km2....

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Khatanbaatar Magsarjav

Khatanbaatar Magsarjav

Khatanbaatar Magsarjav was a Mongolian general and a leading figure in Mongolia's struggle for independence. His contingent of elite 800 Mongol soldiers fought White Russians and Chinese forces over 30 times between 1912 and 1921 without a single defeat. He is often noted by historians as one of...

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Mandukhai Khatun

Mandukhai Khatun

Mandukhai Khatun was the Empress of the Post-imperial Mongolia. She united the warring Mongols with her husband Batmunkh Dayan Khan.- Background :...

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Töregene Khatun

Töregene Khatun

Töregene Khatun was the Great Khatun and regent of the Mongol Empire from the death of her husband Ögedei Khan in 1241 until the election of her eldest son Güyük Khan in 1246.-Background:...

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Khentii Mountains

Khentii Mountains

The Khentii Mountains are a mountain range in the Töv and Khentii Provinces in northern Mongolia. The chain overlaps the Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area and includes Mongolia's sacred mountain, Burkhan Khaldun, which is associated with the origin of Genghis Khan.The range forms the watershed...

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Kherlen River

Kherlen River

Kherlen River is a river of 1,254 km length in Mongolia and China.-Course:The river has its origin in the south slopes of the Khentii mountains, near the Burkhan Khaldun mountain in the Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area, about 180 km northeast of Ulaanbaatar...

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Khong Tayiji

Khong Tayiji

Khong Tayiji is a title of the Mongols.Khong Tayiji derives from Chinese Huangtaizi . At first it also meant crown prince in Mongolian. It was originally given only to descendants of Genghis Khan...

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Ikh Khorig

Ikh Khorig

The Ikh Khorig, or Great Taboo, is a 240 km² area in the Khentii Aimag of Mongolia, believed by some to be the location of Genghis Khan’s grave...

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Khoroo

Khoroo

A khoroo is an administrative subdivision of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. The term is often translated as subdistrict or microdistrict, although the latter might lead to confusion with khoroolols. A khoroo is below the level of a düüreg .There were 121 khoroo until 2007, when the number...

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Khüiten Peak

Khüiten Peak

Hüiten Peak is the highest point in Mongolia, located in the far west of the country on the border with PRC. The Peak towers at the elevation of 4,374 m under the permanent snow-cap...

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Kublai Khan

Kublai Khan

Kublai Khan , born Kublai and also known by the temple name Shizu , was the fifth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire from 1260 to 1294 and the founder of the Yuan Dynasty in China...

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Kulan

Kulan

Khulan was an empress of Genghis Khan and head of the second Court of Genghis Khan. Her status in the Mongol Empire was second only to Grand Empress Borte.-Biography:...

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Kurultai

Kurultai

Kurultai is a political and military council of ancient Mongol and Turkic chiefs and khans. The root of the word "Khural" means political "meeting" or "assembly" in the Mongolian language, it is also a verb for "to be established"...

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Kyokutenhou Masaru

Kyokutenhou Masaru

Kyokutenhō Masaru is a professional sumo wrestler. He made his debut in 1992, with the first group of Mongolians ever to join the sport in Japan, reaching the top division in 1998. He has received five special prizes for Fighting Spirit during his career and has been runner-up in one tournament...

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Köke Temür

Köke Temür

Köke Temür , also known as Wang Baobao , was a Han-Naiman general of the Yuan Dynasty. His mother was the daughter of a Mongolian prince while his father was an ethnic Han Chinese with the surname Wang. Before he was given the Mongolian name by the Yuan court in the early 1360s, he was known by his...

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Pyotr Kozlov

Pyotr Kozlov

Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov was a Russian and Soviet traveler and explorer who continued the studies of Nikolai Przhevalsky in Mongolia and Tibet.Although prepared by his parents for military career, Kozlov chose to join Przhevalsky's expedition. After his mentor's death, Kozlov continued travelling in...

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Khaidu the borjigon mongol

Khaidu the borjigon mongol

Khaidu was a Mongol man from the Borjigin clan who, according to the Secret History of the Mongols, became the first man to rule all the Mongol clans.-The Story:...

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Kaidu

Kaidu

Kaidu was the leader of the House of Ogedei and the de facto khan of the Chagatai Khanate. He ruled part of modern-day Xinjiang and Central Asia during the 13th century, and actively opposed his uncle, Kublai Khan, who established the Yuan Dynasty in China until his death in 1301...

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Kharchin

Kharchin

Kharchin is a subgroup of the Mongols residing mainly in North-western Liaoning and Chifeng, Inner Mongolia. There are Khalkha-Kharchin Mongols in Dorno-Gobi Province and in Ulaanbaatar.They are descended directly from the Kharchin tümen of the Northern Yuan Dynasty...

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Chadraabalyn Lodoidamba

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Owen Lattimore

Owen Lattimore

Owen Lattimore was an American author, educator, and influential scholar of Central Asia, especially Mongolia. In the 1930s he was editor of Pacific Affairs, a journal published by the Institute of Pacific Relations, and then taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1938 to 1963...

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Liao Dynasty

Liao Dynasty

The Liao Dynasty , also known as the Khitan Empire was an empire in East Asia that ruled over the regions of Manchuria, Mongolia, and parts of northern China proper between 9071125...

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Ligdan Khan

Ligdan Khan

Ligdan Khutugtu Khan was the last in the Borjigin clan of Mongol Khans who ruled the Mongols from Chakhar. His unpopular reign generated violent opposition due to his harsh restrictions over the Mongols...

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Luvsangiin Erdenechuluun

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MIAT Mongolian Airlines

MIAT Mongolian Airlines , Mongolian Civil Air Transport) is Mongolia's national airline, headquartered in the MIAT Building in Ulaanbataar, the capital...

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Maidarzhavyn Ganzorig

Maidarzhavyn Ganzorig

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Manchukuo

Manchukuo

Manchukuo or Manshū-koku was a puppet state in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia, governed under a form of constitutional monarchy. The region was the historical homeland of the Manchus, who founded the Qing Empire in China...

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Mandalgovi

Mandalgovi

Mandalgovi is the capital of the Dundgovi Province of Mongolia, about 300 km south of Ulan Bator on the border of the Gobi Desert. It has 10,506 inhabitants , 10,299 .-External links:**...

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Mandukhai Khatun

Mandukhai Khatun

Mandukhai Khatun was the Empress of the Post-imperial Mongolia. She united the warring Mongols with her husband Batmunkh Dayan Khan.- Background :...

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Marco Polo

Marco Polo

Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant traveler from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and apparently...

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Mausoleum of Genghis Khan

Mausoleum of Genghis Khan

The Mausoleum of Genghis Khan is located along a river in Kandehuo Enclosure, Xinjie Town, Ejen Khoruu Banner, Ordos Prefecture-Level City , Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. The Mausoleum is a cenotaph, where the coffin contains no body, but only headdresses and accessories, because...

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Mengjiang

Mengjiang

Mengjiang , also known in English as Mongol Border Land, was an autonomous area in Inner Mongolia, operating under nominal Chinese sovereignty and Japanese control. It consisted of the then-Chinese provinces of Chahar and Suiyuan, corresponding to the central part of modern Inner Mongolia...

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Military of Mongolia

Military of Mongolia

The military of Mongolia has four branches: general purpose forces, border defense forces, internal security forces, and air force. This is a peace-time structure...

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Mishig Sonompil

Mishig Sonompil

Mishigiin Sonompil , has been a Mongolia's Minister for Defense since January 2006 and a Member of Parliament since June 2004.-Early life and education:...

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Mongol Castle

Mongol Castle

Hotel Mongolia is a hotel in the form of a mock castle near Gachuurt village, in the Bayanzürkh district of Ulan Bator , Mongolia. It claims to be the only resort hotel in the country....

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Mongol Empire

Mongol Empire

The Mongol Empire , initially named as Greater Mongol State was a great empire during the 13th and 14th centuries...

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Mongol bow

Mongol bow

The Mongol bow is a recurved composite bow renowned for its military effectiveness. The old Mongolian bows that were used during the times of Genghis Khan were smaller than the modern weapons used at most Naadam festivals today. Modern Mongolian bows are larger and have string bridges...

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Mongol invasion of Rus

Mongol invasion of Rus

The Mongol invasion of Russia was resumed on 21 December 1237 marking the resumption of the Mongol invasion of Europe, during which the Mongols attacked the medieval powers of Poland, Kiev, Hungary, and miscellaneous tribes of less organized peoples...

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Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria

Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria

The Mongol invasion of Volga Bulgaria lasted from 1223 to 1236.-The Mongol campaigns:In 1223, after defeating Russian and Cuman/Kipchak armies at the Battle of Kalka, a Mongol army under the generals Subutai and Jebe was sent to subdue Volga Bulgaria. At that point in history Genghis Khan's troops...

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Mongol military tactics and organization

Mongol military tactics and organization

The Mongol military tactics and organization helped the Mongol Empire to conquer nearly all of continental Asia, the Middle East and parts of eastern Europe. In many ways, it can be regarded as the first "modern" military system....

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Mongolia

Mongolia

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Mongolian Death Worm

Mongolian Death Worm

The Mongolian death worm is a creaturereported to exist in the Gobi Desert. It is generally considered a cryptid: an animal whose sightings and reports are disputed or unconfirmed.It is described as a bright red worm with a wide body that is long....

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Mongolian Democratic Union

Mongolian Democratic Union

The Democratic Union Coalition was a coalition of political parties in Mongolia. Its primary constituents were the National Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party, and its core policies were the implementation of political and economic reforms in the post-communist period.In the 1996...

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Mongolian manuscript maps

Mongolian manuscript maps

Mongolian manuscript maps usually mapped administrative divisions in Greater Mongolia. They gave a bird's eye view of the area depicted, making them somewhat similar to Pictorial maps...

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Mongolian Nuclear-Weapons-Free Status

Mongolian Nuclear-Weapons-Free Status

In 1992, Mongolian President Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat announced that his country would seek to become a one-state Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone...

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Mongolian People's Army

Mongolian People's Army

The Mongolian People's Army or Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army was established on 18 March 1921 as a secondary army under Soviet Red Army command during the 1920s and during World War II.-Creation of the army:One of the first actions of the new Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party...

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Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party

Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party

The Mongolian People's Party formerly the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party is an ex-communist political party in Mongolia. The party is abbreviated MPP in English and ' in Mongolian...

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Mongolian armour

Mongolian armour

Mongolian armour has a long history. Mongol armour drew its influence from Chinese and Middle East styles. Most Mongolian armour was of scale and lamellar variety. Most armour was made of hardened leather and iron, lanced together onto a fabric backing, sometimes silk. Mail armour was also...

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Mongolian cuisine

Mongolian cuisine

Mongolian cuisine refers to the local culinary traditions of Mongolia and Mongolian styled dishes. The extreme continental climate has affected the traditional diet, so the Mongolian cuisine primarily consists of dairy products, meat, and animal fats. Use of vegetables and spices is limited...

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Mongolian horse

Mongolian horse

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Mongolian language

Mongolian language

The Mongolian language is the official language of Mongolia and the best-known member of the Mongolic language family. The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5.2 million, including the vast majority of the residents of Mongolia and many of the Mongolian residents of the Inner...

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Mongolian script

Mongolian script

The classical Mongolian script , also known as Uyghurjin, was the first writing system created specifically for the Mongolian language, and was the most successful until the introduction of Cyrillic in 1946...

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Mongolic languages

Mongolic languages

The Mongolic languages are a group of languages spoken in East-Central Asia, mostly in Mongolia and surrounding areas plus in Kalmykia. The best-known member of this language family, Mongolian, is the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia and the Mongolian residents of Inner...

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Mongols

Mongols

Mongols ) are a Central-East Asian ethnic group that lives mainly in the countries of Mongolia, China, and Russia. In China, ethnic Mongols can be found mainly in the central north region of China such as Inner Mongolia...

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Mongols before Genghis Khan

Mongols before Genghis Khan

The Mongol tribes emerged from an area which had been inhabited by humans as far back as the Stone Age, over 100,000 years ago. The peoples there went through the bronze age and iron age, then forming tribal alliances and beginning to battle with China...

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Mongolian tögrög -
Morin khuur

Morin khuur

The morin khuur is a traditional Mongolian bowed stringed instrument. It is one of the most important musical instruments of the Mongol people, and is considered a symbol of the Mongolian nation. The morin khuur is one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity identified...

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Antoine Mostaert

Antoine Mostaert

- Brief Biography :Born in Bruges, 10 August 1881; studied Latin and Greek during his Secondary education. He joined the CICM Missionaries, and was ordained priest. As a seminarian in Belgium he studied Chinese, which he came to know well; he also began to learn Mongolian using Isaac Jacob...

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Music of Mongolia

Music of Mongolia

Music is an integral part of Mongolian culture. Among the unique contributions of Mongolia to the world's musical culture are the long songs, one of the greatest features of the Mongolian music, overtone singing and morin khuur, the horse-headed fiddle...

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Möngke Khan

Möngke Khan

Möngke Khan , born Möngke, , was the fourth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire from July 1, 1251 – August 11, 1259. He was the first Great Khan from the Toluid line, and made significant reforms to improve the administration of the Empire during his reign...

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Mörön (city) -
Mörön Airport

Mörön Airport

Mörön Airport is a public airport located in Mörön, the capital of Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia.- Airlines and destinations:- External links :*...

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Muushig

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Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj

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Janlavyn Narantsatsralt

Janlavyn Narantsatsralt

Janlavyn Narantsatsralt was a Mongol politician. He served as Prime Minister of Mongolia from 1998-12-09 until 1999-07-22.- Life :...

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Mongolian Nuclear-Weapons-Free Status

Mongolian Nuclear-Weapons-Free Status

In 1992, Mongolian President Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat announced that his country would seek to become a one-state Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone...

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Naadam

Naadam

Naadam is a traditional type of festival in Mongolia. The festival is also locally termed "eriin gurvan naadam" "the three games of men". The games are Mongolian wrestling, horse racing and archery and are held throughout the country during the midsummer holidays...

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Nalaikh

Nalaikh

Nalaikh is one of nine Düüregs of the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. It is subdivided into 6 Khoroos .Other than most other düüregs, Nalaikh is technically a separate city, but still under the common administration of the capital....

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Nambaryn Enkhbayar

Nambaryn Enkhbayar

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National University of Mongolia

National University of Mongolia

The National University of Mongolia is the oldest university in Mongolia. It hosts twelve schools and faculties in Ulaanbaatar, and runs branches in the Zavkhan and Orkhon Aimags...

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Negdel

Negdel

Negdel is the common term for the agricultural cooperatives in the Mongolian People's Republic. The full name is Khödöö aj axuin negdel .- Early attempts :...

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Nemegtbaatar

Nemegtbaatar

Nemegtbaatar is a genus of mammal from the Upper Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. It existed in the company of much larger dinosaurs, found together in the Nemegt Basin. This creature was a member of the extinct order Multituberculata...

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Nessovbaatar

Nessovbaatar

Nessovbaatar is a genus of extinct mammal from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. It eked out its living in the company of Central Asian dinosaurs. This animal was a member of the extinct order Multituberculata within the suborder Cimolodonta and family Sloanbaataridae.The genus Nessovbaatar was...

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Nogai Khan

Nogai Khan

Nogai , also called Isa Nogai, was a general and de facto ruler of the Golden Horde and a great-great-grandson of Genghis Khan. His grandfather was Baul/Teval Khan, the 7th son of Jochi...

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Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa

Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa

Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa is a former Mongolian politician, and the acting Prime Minister from 22 to 30 July 1999. She also served as Chairperson of the 55th session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific .Tuyaa was the foreign minister in the government of the...

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Tsendiin Nyamdorj

Tsendiin Nyamdorj

Tsendiin Nyamdorj is a Mongolian politician. He served as Minister of Justice and the Interior from 2000 to 2004 and as the Speaker of the State Great Khural from 2004 to 2007. Nyamdorj is a member of the Dörvöd tribe.- Life :...

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Oghul Qaimish

Oghul Qaimish

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Oirat language

Oirat language

Oirat belongs to the group of Mongolic languages. Scholars differ as to whether Oirat is a distinct language or a major dialect of the Mongolian language...

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Oirats

Oirats

Oirats are the westernmost group of the Mongols who unified several tribes origin whose ancestral home is in the Altai region of western Mongolia. Although the Oirats originated in the eastern parts of Central Asia, the most prominent group today is located in the Republic of Kalmykia, a federal...

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Onon River

Onon River

The Onon is a river in Mongolia and Russia of length 818 km and watershed 94,010 km². It originates at the eastern slope of the Khentii Mountains. For 298 km it flows within Mongolia...

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Onon, Khentii

Onon, Khentii

Onon is a town in the Khentii Province of Mongolia, situated at the upper Onon River....

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Ulaanbaatar Opera House -
Ordos Desert

Ordos Desert

The Ordos Desert is a desert and steppe region lying on a plateau in the south of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China . The soil of the Ordos is a mixture of clay and sand and, as a result, is poorly suited for agriculture. It extends over an area of...

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Orkhon Valley

Orkhon Valley

Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape sprawls along the banks of the Orkhon River in Central Mongolia, some 360 km west from the capital Ulaanbaatar. It was inscribed by UNESCO in the World Heritage List as representing evolution of nomadic pastoral traditions spanning more than two millennia...

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Orkhon script

Orkhon script

The Old Turkic script is the alphabet used by the Göktürk and other early Turkic Khanates from at least the 7th century to record the Old Turkic language. It was later used by the Uyghur Empire...

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Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa

Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa

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Outer Mongolia

Outer Mongolia

Outer Mongolia was a territory of the Qing Dynasty = the Manchu Empire. Its area was roughly equivalent to that of the modern state of Mongolia, which is sometimes informally called "Outer Mongolia" today...

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Overtone singing

Overtone singing

Overtone singing, also known as overtone chanting, or harmonic singing, is a type of singing in which the singer manipulates the resonances created as air travels from the lungs, past the vocal folds, and out the lips to produce a melody.The partials of a sound wave made by the human voice can be...

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Ovoo

Ovoo

An ovoo is a type of shamanistic cairn found in Mongolia, usually made from rocks or from wood. Ovoos are often found at the top of mountains and in high places, like mountain passes...

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Ögedei Khan

Ögedei Khan, born Ögedei was the third son of Genghis Khan and second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire by succeeding his father...

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Ömnögovi Province

Ömnögovi Province

Ömnögovi is an aimag of Mongolia, located in the south of the country, in the Gobi Desert. Ömnögovi is Mongolia's largest aimag. The capital is Dalanzadgad....

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Öndör Gongor

Öndör Gongor

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Övörkhangai Province-
Örüg Temür Khan

Örüg Temür Khan

Örüg Temür or Gulichi was a Mongol leader who temporarily throned himself Khan of the Mongols in the early 15th century. He might be the same person, Ugechi Khashikha who appeared in Mongolian history. Khashikha means prince or duke in Tungusic languages...

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Drogön Chögyal Phagpa

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Pax Mongolica

Pax Mongolica

The Pax Mongolica is a Latin phrase meaning "Mongol Peace" coined by Western scholars to describe 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...

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Peljidiin Genden -
Antoine Mostaert

Antoine Mostaert

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Phagspa script

Phagspa script

The Phags-pa script was an alphabet designed by the Tibetan Lama 'Gro-mgon Chos-rgyal 'Phags-pa for Yuan emperor Kublai Khan, as a unified script for the literary languages of the Yuan Dynasty....

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Politics of Mongolia

Politics of Mongolia

Politics of Mongolia takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government...

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President of Mongolia

President of Mongolia

The President of Mongolia is the head of state of Mongolia. The Constitution of Mongolia implements a parliamentary system, so while much of the President's role is ceremonial, he or she does wield significant political power.-Election:...

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Prime Minister of Mongolia

Prime Minister of Mongolia

The Prime Minister of Mongolia is the highest member of the Mongolian government's executive arm, and heads the Mongolian cabinet. The Prime Minister is appointed by Parliament, and can be removed by a vote of no confidence.-Powers:...

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Przewalski's Horse

Przewalski's Horse

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Public holidays in Mongolia

Public holidays in Mongolia

This is a list of Public holidays in Mongolia-Notes:...

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Puxian Wannu

Puxian Wannu

Púxiān Wànnú was a Jurchen warlord who established the short-lived kingdom of Eastern Xia in 13th century China .He originally served the dying Jin Dynasty under pressure from the Mongol Empire...

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Qazan Khan ibn Yasaur

-Biography:Qazan was the son of Yasa'ur, a Chagatayid prince who had revolted in the 1310s. Upon his ascension to the throne, he attempted to increase his power within the ulus. These measures provoked the anger of the nobility, who threw their support behind the Qara'unas Amir Qazaghan. The two...

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Oghul Qaimish

Oghul Qaimish

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Amir Qazaghan

Amir Qazaghan

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Qing Dynasty

Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....

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Qinghai

Qinghai

Qinghai ; Oirat Mongolian: ; ; Salar:) is a province of the People's Republic of China, named after Qinghai Lake...

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Queen Anu

Queen Anu

Queen Anu or Lady Anu was grand-daughter of Ochirtu Secen Khan of Khoshuud and the spouse of first Sengge and then Galdan Boshughtu Khan of Dzungaria. She heroically died saving her husband from enemy encirclement during the battle at Zuunmod at the river Terelj in 1696.-Further reading:* Zlatkin,...

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Qutlugh Khwaja

Qutlugh Khwaja

Qutlugh Khwaja was a son of Duwa, the Mongolian khan of Chagatai Khanate in the Mongol Empire. He became a chief of the Qara'unas in Afghanistan after Abdullah was recalled by the Khan to Central Asia in around 1298-1299...

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Rabban Bar Sauma

Rabban Bar Sauma , also known as Rabban Ṣawma or Rabban Çauma, , was a Turkic/Mongol monk turned diplomat of the Nestorian Christian faith. He is known for embarking on a pilgrimage from Mongol-controlled China to Jerusalem with one of his students, Rabban Markos...

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Emperor Renzong of Yuan China

Emperor Renzong of Yuan China

Buyantu Khan , also known as Emperor Renzong of Yuan , born Ayurbarwada, was the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, and is regarded as the eighth Great Khan of the Mongols in Mongolia....

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Rehe

Rehe

Rehe , also known as Jehol, is a defunct Chinese Special administrative district and later province.-Administration:Rehe was located north of the Great Wall, west of Manchuria, and east of Mongolia. The capital of Rehe was the city of Chengde. The second largest city in the province was Chaoyang,...

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Republican Party (Mongolia)

Republican Party (Mongolia)

The Mongolian Republican Party , also known as Jargalsaikhan's Party , is a political party in Mongolia.In Mongolia's 2004 legislative elections, the party won one of the 76 seat in the State Great Khural, but it failed to win any seats in the most recent elections, on June 29th, 2008.-External...

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Renchinlkhümbe, Khövsgöl -
Rinchinnyamyn Amarjargal

Rinchinnyamyn Amarjargal

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Roman Catholicism in Mongolia

Roman Catholicism in Mongolia

The Roman Catholic Church in Mongolia is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome...

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Roman Ungern von Sternberg

Roman Ungern von Sternberg

Baron Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg was a Russian Yesaul , Lieutenant-general, and a hero of World War I...

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Ryenchinii Choinom

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Sangiin Dalai nuur

Sangiin Dalai nuur

Sangiin Dalai Lake is a salt water lake in northern Mongolia, located at the border between the Tsagaan-Uul, Shine-Ider, and Bürentogtokh sums of Khövsgöl aimag, and the Ikh-Uul sum of Zavkhan aimag. It is surrounded by mountains, hills, and rocks. In 1905, it was the site of a strong earthquake....

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Sartuul

Sartuul

Sartuul is one of the Mongol clans. Today, they primarily live in the Zavkhan Province of Mongolia.The origin of the Sartuul people is Turkic merchants and artisans from Khwarizm. According to Pelliot, Sartuul means merchant in plural. Mongols called Muslim merchant a Sart or the place he came...

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Sayan Mountains

Sayan Mountains

The Sayan Mountains are a mountain range between northwestern Mongolia and southern Siberia, Russia.The Eastern Sayan extends from the Yenisei River at 92° E to the southwest end of Lake Baikal at 106° E...

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Isaac Jacob Schmidt

Isaac Jacob Schmidt

Isaac Jacob Schmidt was an Orientalist specializing in Mongolian and Tibetan. Schmidt was a Moravian missionary to the Kalmyks and devoted much of his labours to bible translation....

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The Secret History of the Mongols

The Secret History of the Mongols

The Secret History of the Mongols is the oldest surviving Mongolian-language literary work...

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Selenga

Selenga

The Selenge is a major river in Mongolia and Buryatia, Russia. Its source rivers are the Ider River and the Delgermörön river. It flows into Lake Baikal and has a length of 616 miles...

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Selenge Province

Selenge Province

Selenge is one of the 21 aimags of Mongolia, located in the north of the country. The name is derived from the Selenge river. The capital is Sükhbaatar.- Administrative subdivisions :* - The aimag capital- References :...

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Dolgorsüren Serjbudee

Dolgorsuren Serjbudee

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Shagai

Shagai

Shagai , chükö , asyk/ashyk/oshuq refers to the astragalus of the ankle of a sheep or goat. The bones are collected and used for traditional games and fortunetelling throughout Central Asia, and games involving the ankle bones may also be referred to by the name of the bones. They may be painted...

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Shankh Monastery

Shankh Monastery

Shankh Monastery is one of the oldest and most important monasteries in Mongolia, founded in 1647 by Zanabazar. It is located in the Övörkhangai Aimag, Central Mongolia, 25 km SE from Kharkhorin city....

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Sharga, Govi-Altai -
Silk Road

Silk Road

The Silk Road or Silk Route refers to a historical network of interlinking trade routes across the Afro-Eurasian landmass that connected East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean and European world, as well as parts of North and East Africa...

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Sloanbaataridae

Sloanbaataridae

Sloanbaataridae is a family of fossil mammals within the extinct order Multituberculata. Remains are known from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. These small herbivores lived during the "age of the dinosaurs". This family is part of the suborder Cimolodonta. The family Sloanbaataridae was named by...

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Songino Khairkhan

Songino Khairkhan

Songino Khairkhan is one of nine Düüregs of the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. It is subdivided into 21 Khoroos ....

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Mishig Sonompil

Mishig Sonompil

Mishigiin Sonompil , has been a Mongolia's Minister for Defense since January 2006 and a Member of Parliament since June 2004.-Early life and education:...

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Sorghaghtani Beki

Sorghaghtani Beki

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Soyombo script

Soyombo script

The Soyombo script is an abugida developed by the Mongolian monk and scholar Bogdo Zanabazar in 1686 to write Mongolian.It can also be used to write Tibetan and Sanskrit....

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Soyombo symbol

Soyombo symbol

The Soyombo symbol is a special character out of the Mongolian Soyombo script. It serves as a national symbol of Mongolia, to be found on the Flag of Mongolia, the Coat of arms of Mongolia, and on many other official documents....

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State of Dogs

State of Dogs

State of Dogs is a Mongolian movie that was released in 1998, directed and written by Peter Brosens and Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh. The film was shown at the 1998 Venice Film Festival, the 1998 Toronto Film Festival, the 1999 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, and won the Grand Prix at...

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Storm over Asia

Storm Over Asia

Storm Over Asia is a 1928 Russian film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, written by Osip Brik, Ivan Novokshonov and starring Valéry Inkijinoff. It forms part of Pudovkin's "revolutionary trilogy", alongside Mother and The End of St...

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The Story of the Weeping Camel

The Story of the Weeping Camel

The Story of the Weeping Camel is a 2003 German docudrama distributed by ThinkFilm. It was released internationally in 2004. The movie was directed and written by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni. The plot is about a family of nomadic shepherds in the Gobi desert trying to save the life of a...

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Sükhbaatar (district)

Sükhbaatar (district)

Sükhbaatar is one of nine Düüregs of the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar. It is subdivided into 18 Khoroos . The district was established in 1965 and named after Damdin Sükhbaatar, a Mongolian military leader and revolutionary hero. As of 2004, it had an approximate population of 112,533 in 24,568...

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Dolgorsüren Sumiyabazar

Dolgorsuren Sumiyabazar

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Tabun-Khara-Obo crater

Tabun-Khara-Obo crater

Tabun-Khara-Obo is an impact crater in the Dornogovi Aimag the south-east of Mongolia.The crater, which is exposed at the surface, is 1.3 km in diameter...

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Tamir River

Tamir River

The Tamir is a river flowing through the valleys of the Khangai Mountains in central Mongolia. It is a main tributary of the Orkhon River....

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Tannu-Ola Mountains

Tannu-Ola Mountains

The Tannu-Ola mountains is a mountain range in southern Siberia, in the Tuva Republic of Russia. It extends in an east-west direction and curves along the Mongolian border...

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Tartary

Tartary

Tartary or Great Tartary was a name used by Europeans from the Middle Ages until the twentieth century to designate the Great Steppe, that is the great tract of northern and central Asia stretching from the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean inhabited mostly by Turkic, Mongol...

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Tatars

Tatars

Tatars are a Turkic speaking ethnic group , numbering roughly 7 million.The majority of Tatars live in the Russian Federation, with a population of around 5.5 million, about 2 million of which in the republic of Tatarstan.Significant minority populations are found in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,...

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Köke Temür

Köke Temür

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Tengri

Tengri

Tengri or Tengger Tengri or Tengger Tengri or Tengger (Old Turkic: ; Mongolian: Тэнгэр, Tenger; Chinese: 腾格里, Mandarin: Ténggélǐ, Hungarian: Tengri, Turkish: Tanrı, Bulgarian: Tangra (Тангра) is a sky god, formerly the chief deity of the early Turkic peoples, including the Xiongnu, Huns, Bulgars,...

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Tengriism

Tengriism

Tengriism is a Central Asian religion that incorporates elements of shamanism, animism, totemism and ancestor worship. Despite still being active in some minorities, it was, in old times, the major belief of Turkic peoples , Bulgars, Hungarians and Mongols...

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Terkhiin Tsagaan Nuur

Terkhiin Tsagaan Nuur

Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake also known as White Lake is a lake in the Khangai Mountains in central Mongolia. The Khorgo volcano is located near the eastern end of the lake and the Suman River springs from lake....

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The Travels of Marco Polo

The Travels of Marco Polo

Books of the Marvels of the World or Description of the World , also nicknamed Il Milione or Oriente Poliano and commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Marco Polo, describing the...

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Tibetan Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism is the body of Buddhist religious doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet and certain regions of the Himalayas, including northern Nepal, Bhutan, and India . It is the state religion of Bhutan...

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Timeline of Mongolian history

Timeline of Mongolian history

-Qing Era:*1619-32: Ligden Khan, the last Mongol Great Khan, aims tocentralize imperial control over the various Mongol tribes, but alienates a number of Eastern Mongol tribes who go over to the Manchus....

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Timur

Timur

Timur , historically known as Tamerlane in English , was a 14th-century conqueror of West, South and Central Asia, and the founder of the Timurid dynasty in Central Asia, and great-great-grandfather of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Dynasty, which survived as the Mughal Empire in India until...

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Tolui

Tolui

Tolui, was the youngest son of Genghis Khan by his chief khatun Börte...

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Traditional Mongolian medicine

Traditional Mongolian medicine

Traditional Mongolian medicine developed over many years among the Mongolian people. Many Mongolian doctors became so adept that they became well known in China and among Tibetan lamas.- History :...

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Trans-Mongolian Railway

Trans-Mongolian Railway

The Trans-Mongolian Railway connects Ulan-Ude, on the Trans-Baikal railway in Russia, with the Chinese city of Jining, by way of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia....

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Transportation in Mongolia

Transportation in Mongolia

The transportation system in Mongolia consists of a network of railways, roads, waterways, and airports.-Railways:The Trans-Mongolian Railway connects the Trans-Siberian Railway from Ulan Ude in Russia to Erenhot and Beijing in China through the capital Ulan Bator. The Mongolian section of this...

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Treaty of friendship and alliance between the Government of Mongolia and Tibet

Treaty of friendship and alliance between the Government of Mongolia and Tibet

A Treaty of friendship and alliance between the Government of Mongolia and Tibet was signed on February 2, 1913, at Urga . However, there have been doubts about the authority of the Tibetan signatories to conclude such a treaty, and therefore about whether it constitutes a valid...

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Tsagaan Sar

Tsagaan Sar

Tsagaan Sar , white moon or white month) is the lunisolar New Year festival of the Mongols. Today, Mongols are found in Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Buryatia and Kalmykia. It is often celebrated around the same time as the Chinese New Year...

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Tuul River

Tuul River

Tuul River is a river in central and northern Mongolia considered sacred by the Mongols. It is 704 km long and drains an area 49,840 square km. The river is called the "Duluo river" in the Suishu, a Chinese historical work completed in 636 AD...

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Tuvans

Tuvans

Tuvans or Tuvinians are Turkic peoples living in southern Siberia. They are historically known as one of the Uriankhai, from the Mongolian designation...

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Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa

Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa

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Töregene Khatun

Töregene Khatun

Töregene Khatun was the Great Khatun and regent of the Mongol Empire from the death of her husband Ögedei Khan in 1241 until the election of her eldest son Güyük Khan in 1246.-Background:...

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Töv Province

Töv Province

Töv is one of the 21 aimags of Mongolia. The national capital Ulaanbaatar is located roughly at its center, but the city itself is administrated as an independent municipality.- Geography :...

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TV5 Mongolia

TV5 Mongolia

TV5 Mongolia, or TV5, is a television broadcasting station in Mongolia.The station works closely with the Mongolian National Broadcaster and is financed by advertising, sponsoring, and government subsidies. The program is also available in streaming format online for a fee. This access method is...

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UB Post

The UB Post is an English-language weekly newspaper published in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. Founded in 1996, the newspaper has both print and online editions ....

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Ugsarmal bair

Ugsarmal bair

Ugsarmal bair , or just Ugsarmal is the Mongolian term for high rise panel buildings. Most of these buildings were built in the 1970s and 1980s with Soviet funding and Soviet designs, in order to supply a greater share of Mongolia's population with flats equipped with modern amenities...

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Ulaangom

Ulaangom

Ulaangom is the capital of Uvs Province in Mongolia. It is located 26 km South-West from the lake Uvs Nuur shore and on the slopes of the Kharkhiraa mountain, 120 km South to the Russian border.- Description :...

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Uliastai

Uliastai

Uliastai is a city in Mongolia. It is located in the western part of the country, 1,115 kilometers from the capital Ulaanbaatar. Uliastai is the capital of Zavkhan Province and was the 10th most populous city in the country with a population of 24,276 , now this city has 16,240 population and is...

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National University of Mongolia

National University of Mongolia

The National University of Mongolia is the oldest university in Mongolia. It hosts twelve schools and faculties in Ulaanbaatar, and runs branches in the Zavkhan and Orkhon Aimags...

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Roman Ungern von Sternberg

Roman Ungern von Sternberg

Baron Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg was a Russian Yesaul , Lieutenant-general, and a hero of World War I...

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Uskhal Khan

Uskhal Khan

Uskhal Khan , born Tögüs Temür , was a Mongol Emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty in Mongolia. He was the last powerful khan of the Mongols until the reign of Dayan Khan....

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Uvs Nuur

Uvs Nuur

Uvs Lake is a highly saline lake in an endorheic basin - Uvs Nuur Basin in Mongolia with a small part in Russia. It is the largest lake in Mongolia by surface area, covering 3,350 km² at 759 m above sea level....

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Uvs Province

Uvs Province

Uvs is one of the 21 aimags of Mongolia. It is located in the west of the country, 1336 km away from the national capital Ulaanbaatar.Its capital is Ulaangom which lies 936m above the Sea level....

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Uyghur people

Uyghur people

The Uyghur are a Turkic ethnic group living in Eastern and Central Asia. Today, Uyghurs live primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China...

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Uyghur language

Uyghur language

Uyghur , formerly known as Eastern Turk, is a Turkic language with 8 to 11 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. Significant communities of Uyghur-speakers are located in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and various other...

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Wang Toghtua Bukha

Toghtua Bukha was the King of Shen in the fourteenth century. He was a member of the Goryeo royal family.He was a grandson of Wang Go. He became an elite imperial bodyguard, of Toghun Temür in 1350 and held a high position in the Yuan court...

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Western Xia

Western Xia

The Western Xia Dynasty or the Tangut Empire, was known to the Tanguts and the Tibetans as Minyak.The state existed from 1038 to 1227 AD in what are now the northwestern Chinese provinces of Ningxia, Gansu, eastern Qinghai, northern Shaanxi, northeastern Xinjiang, southwest Inner Mongolia, and...

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Wind Horse

Wind Horse

The wind horse is an allegory for the human soul in the shamanistic tradition of Central Asia. In Tibetan Buddhism, it was included as the pivotal element in the center of the four animals symbolizing the cardinal directions and a symbol of the idea of well-being or good fortune...

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List of World Heritage Sites in Mongolia

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Yam (route)

Yam is a supply point route messenger system employed and extensively used and expanded by Genghis Khan and used by subsequent Great Khans and Khans.Relay stations were used to give food, shelter and spare horses for Mongol armies messengers...

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Yassa

Yassa

Yassa was a secret written code of law created by Genghis Khan. It was the principal law under the Mongol Empire even though no copies were made available...

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Yesugei

Yesugei

Yesügei Baghatur , was major chief of the Kiyad-Borjigin clan and the father of Temüjin , Hasar, Hachiun, Temüge, Temülen, Behter, and Belgutei. Yesügei was the son of Bartan Baghatur, who was the son of Khabul Khan, who was recognized as a khagan by the Jin Dynasty...

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Yi Ja-chun

Yi Ja-chun

Yi Ja-chun was a minor military officer of the Yuan Dynasty and the father of Yi Seong-gye, the founder of the Joseon Dynasty...

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Yolyn Am

Yolyn Am

right|thumb|Remnants of the Yolyn Am ice field, September 2006Yolyn Am is a deep and narrow gorge in the Gurvan Saikhan Mountains of southern Mongolia. The valley is named after the Lammergeier, which is called Yol in Mongolian...

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Yuan Dynasty

Yuan Dynasty

The Yuan Dynasty , or Great Yuan Empire was a ruling dynasty founded by the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, who ruled most of present-day China, all of modern Mongolia and its surrounding areas, lasting officially from 1271 to 1368. It is considered both as a division of the Mongol Empire and as an...

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Yümjiriin Mönkh-Amgalan

Yümjiriin Mönkh-Amgalan

Yümjiriin Mönkh-Amgalan is a Professor of linguistics at the National University of Mongolia.Mönkh-Amgalan earned his M.A. , PhD , and Doctor of Science in linguistics from the National University of Mongolia. His research focuses on modern Mongolian modality, pragmatics, semantics and syntax...

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Yurt

Yurt

A yurt is a portable, bent wood-framed dwelling structure traditionally used by Turkic nomads in the steppes of Central Asia. The structure comprises a crown or compression wheel usually steam bent, supported by roof ribs which are bent down at the end where they meet the lattice wall...

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Zaisan Memorial

Zaisan Memorial

The Zaisan Memorial is a memorial south of the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar that honors Soviet soldiers killed in World War II. Located on a hill south of the city, the memorial features a circular memorial painting that depicts scenes of friendship between the peoples of the USSR and Mongolia...

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Zaya Pandit

Zaya Pandit

Zaya Pandita or Namkhaijantsan was a Buddhist missionary priest and scholar of Oirat origin who is the most prominent Oirat Buddhist scholar....

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Zorigtbaataryn Enkhzorig

Zorigtbaataryn Enkhzorig

Zorigtbaataryn Enkhzorig is an amateur boxer from Mongolia who competed at the 2006 Asian Games in the Featherweight division, beat Galib Jafarov and won the silver medal in a lost match against Uzbekistan's Bahodirjon Sultonov 15-37....

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Zud

Zud

A zud or dzud is a Mongolian term for an extremely snowy winter in which livestock are unable to find fodder through the snow cover, and large numbers of animals die due to starvation and the cold. The term is also used for other meteorological conditions, especially in winter, that make livestock...

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Zuunmod

Zuunmod

Zuunmod is the center of Mongolia's Central Province , located 30 km south of Ulan Bator. It has a population of 14,660 inhabitants and an area of 19.18 square kilometres. Zuunmod is located at the southern side of Bogd Khan Uul, 43 km from the capital Ulaanbaatar.Zuunmod was established as the...

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Züüngovi, Uvs

Züüngovi, Uvs

Zu'ungovi is a sum of Uvs Province in western Mongolia.It lies on the southern shore of Uvs Nuur. Part of the sum is covered with sand dunes....

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Züünkhangai, Uvs

Züünkhangai, Uvs

Zu'unhangai is a sum of Uvs Province in western Mongolia. The sum is in the Khan Ho'hii mountains....