Depiction of Gog and Magog, horrible giants Gog and Magog # Identifying Gog and Magog | thought to be ancestors of the Mongols by medieval Europeans.

This map shows the boundary of 13th century Mongol Empire and location of today's Mongols in modern Mongolia, Russia, Central Asia n States and People's Republic of China | China.

File: Mongols Wrangler. jpg | A Mongol Wrangler

An early-eighteenth century French Jesuit missions in China | Jesuit map showing the Willow Palisade ( Barriere de Pieux ) surrounding Liaodong ( Leao-Tong ), with an additional branch going northeast, to separate the Mongols and the Manchus

The Armenians fought with the Mongols ( left ) and vanquished the Mamluks ( right ) at the 1299 Battle of Wadi al-Khazanda | Battle of Homs.

Hethum II ( left ) parting from Ghazan and his Mongols in 1303 ( Hayton of Corycus # History of the Tartars | History of the Tatars )

Image: StMaryOfTheMongols20071010 01. jpg | The Church of Saint Mary of the Mongols viewed from South.

The declining Sultanate of Rûm, vassal of the Ilkhanate | Mongols, and the emerging beyliks, c. 1300.

Firmans of Mehmed II and Bayazid II-kept at the Church of Saint Mary of the Mongols ( Istanbul ) | Church of Saint Mary of the Mongols in Istanbul-which granted the ownership of the building to the Greek community

** Bashkirs | Burtas | Bulgars ( they were nomadic only between the conquest of the hypothetical Kingdom of Balhara and the formation of Great Bulgaria )| Jurchen | Kalmuks ( Mongols ) | Khazars | Kimaks | Kipchaks | Magyars | Mongols | Nogais | Petchenegs | Seljuks | Slavs | Tartars

He cited specific examples, such as the Tibetans under the British, the Manchus under the Japanese, the Mongols under the Outer Mongolian People's Republic, and the Uyghurs of Xinjiang under the Soviet Union.

Mongols ( Mongolian: ), Mongolchuud ) are a Central-North Asian ethnic group that lives mainly in China.

Mongolian folds of the eyelids exist on almost all Mongols along with relatively high and pronounced cheekbones.

The Mongolian spot which is common among Mongols, is looked upon proudly as a distinguishing feature of the ethnic group.

Mongols distinguish Gobi from desert proper, although the distinction is not always apparent to outsiders unfamiliar with the Mongolian landscape.

In Central Asia, The Secret History of Mongols is regarded as the single significant native Mongolian account of Genghis Khan.

Mongols in Inner Mongolia and other parts of China, on the other hand, continue to use alphabets based on the traditional Mongolian script.

From 2008, Mongolian Neo-Nazi groups have defaced buildings in Ulan Bator, smashed Chinese shopkeepers ' windows, and killed pro-Chinese Mongols.

By contrast the Solons and the Khamnigans ( Ewenkis of Transbaikalia ) had picked up horse breeding and the Mongolian deel from the Mongols.

" Mongolia located in the north ( of the Gobi )") is sometimes used in Mongolian ( or Chinese ) language to refer to Outer Mongolia when making a distinction with Inner Mongolia, so as to elide the history of Qing rule and rather imply a geographic unity or distinction of regions inhabited by Mongols in the Mongolian Plateau.

In the middle of the 14th century, with famine, plagues and peasant revolts sweeping across China, Zhu became a leader of an army that conquered China, ending the Yuan Dynasty and forcing the Mongols to retreat to the Mongolian steppes.

The broader delimitation of Mongolian may be based on mutual intelligibility, but an analysis based on a tree diagram such as the one above faces other problems due to the close contacts between e. g. Buryat and Khalkha Mongols during history thus creating or preserving a dialect continuum.

Baber in his memoirs has sometimes written that they are Mongols and Mongolian words are in their language ; and at another place he ( Baber ) calls them Hazara Turkomans, Turkish words are also found in their language.

The Chahar became a tümen of six tümen Mongols under Dayan Khan and were led by his successors, thus becoming personal appanage of the Mongolian Khans.

According to an ancient Mongolian source, the Mongols were again peaceful thereafter thanks to the policy of Dayan Khan and his khatun Maudukhai.

* The Mongolian language as the most important language spoken by Mongols ( i. e. people from Mongolic peoples )

The oldest surviving literary work in the Mongolian language is The Secret History of the Mongols, which was written for the royal family sometime after Genghis Khan's death in 1227.

In 1935, Demchugdongrub, now the leader of the Mongols of Inner Mongolia, made serious efforts to set up an autonomous Mongolian Government in Chahar and Suiyuan.

The Fifth Dalai Lama had encouraged Mongolian lamas to prevent any non-dGe-lugs-pa teaching among the Mongols.

He cited specific examples, such as the Tibetans under the British, the Manchus under the Japanese, the Mongols under the Outer Mongolian People's Republic, and the Uyghurs of Xinjiang under the Soviet Union.

Attempts to include Inner Mongolia into the new state failed for various reasons, including the military weakness of the Inner Mongols to achieve their independence, the lack of Russian assistance to them ( Russia was bound in Inner Mongolian affairs by secret treaties with Japan ), and the lack of support from a part Inner Mongolian nobles and the higher clergy.

That the Mongols referred to Western Xia as " Tangut " to represent the founding ethnic group, the Tuyühu Xianbei, is consistent with the theories of the Mongol origins postulated by the Outer Mongolian scholars, who have held that the Mongols had descended from the Xiongnu, more specifically the eastern Xiongnu who spoke proto-Mongolic language, as opposed to the western Xiongnu who spoke proto-Turkish language.

Sultan Qutuz of Egypt eventually defeated the Mongols in the Battle of Ain Jalut ( near Ein Harod ) and his successor ( and assassin ), Baibars, eliminated the last Crusader Kingdom of Acre in 1291, thereby ending the Crusades.

The Mongols caught up with Henry near Legnica at Legnickie Pole ( Polish for " Field of Legnica "), also known as Wahlstatt.

The Code was promulgated in 1640 by them, their brethren in Dzungaria and some of the Eastern Mongols who all gathered near the Tarbagatai Mountains in Dzungaria to resolve their differences and to unite under the banner of the Gelugpa sect.

In 1263, the Mongols set up the " Command Post of the Marshal of the Eastern Campaign " near the modern settlement of Tyr, some upstream from today's Nikolayevsk-on-Amur.

Guyuk sent Amuqan to Korea and the Mongols camped near Yiom-ju in July 1247.

It is assumed that the Battle of Chulmandore, in which Komi-Permyaks defeated Mongols, occurred near the river mouth.

However, the King of Georgia, George IV Lasha, advanced with 10, 000 men and drove the Mongols back near Tbilisi.

Because the Uyghurs adopted the Chinese calendar, and the Mongols and Tibetans adopted the Uyghur calendar, Losar occurs near or on the same day as the Chinese New Year and the Mongolian New Year, but the traditions of Losar are unique to Tibet, and predates both Indian and Chinese influences.

The Mongols ravaged Transylvania, but were beaten by the Hungarian royal army under Ladislaus IV near Pest, and the retreating Mongol forces were ambushed by the Szekely.

Nogai was killed in battle in 1299 at the Kagamlik, near the Dnieper, against Mongols under legitimate khan.

Of particular interest are the sketches of the Mongols and the people of Samarkand and its vicinity, the account of the land and products of Samarkand in the Ili Valley at or near Almalig-Kulja, and the description of various great mountain ranges, peaks and defiles, such as the Chinese Altay, the Tian Shan, Bogdo Uula, and the Iron Gates of Termit.

Zafar Khan, a general serving Alauddin Khilji, defeated the Mongols near Jalandhar in 1297.

In the chronicle Ryngold returned to Navahrudak after a victorious battle with Mongols on the bank of the Neman River at Mohilna near Minsk.

According to folk etymology, the name of the town came from the royal residence of Kideksha ( near Suzdal ), ransacked by the Mongols in 1237, while Max Vasmer labels the place-name as " obscure ".