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The Kara-Khitan Khanate ( Traditional Chinese: 西遼 ; Simplified Chinese: 西辽 ; pinyin: Xī Liáo, 1124 – 1218 ), also known as Western Liao, was established by Yelü Dashi ( 耶律大石 ) who led around 100, 000 Khitan remnants after escaping the Jurchen conquest of their native country, the Khitan dynasty.
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Kara-Khitan and Khanate
** Khans of Kara-Khitai, see Kara-Khitan Khanate
* The Kara-Khitan Khanate is destroyed by Genghis Khan's Mongolian cavalry.
* The Kangguo Era begins in the Kara-Khitan Khanate.
In 1141, the Kara-Khitan Khanate under Yelü Dashi defeated the Seljuk Turks near Samarkand.
The Khitan later established the Dahe Confederation ( 618-730 ), the Yaonian Khaganate ( 730-906 ), the Liao Dynasty ( 907-1125 ) and the Kara-Khitan Khanate ( 1124 – 1218 ).
# Redirect Kara-Khitan Khanate
For the Khitan Khanate, see Kara-Khitan Khanate.
In 1141 Kara-Khitan Khanate became the dominant force in the region after they defeated Sultan Sanjar, the last Great Seljukid, at the Battle of Qatwan near Samarkand.
The Kara-Khitan Khanate, however, did not destroy the Karakhanid dynasty.
# Redirect Kara-Khitan Khanate
# Redirect Kara-Khitan Khanate
It was the capital of the Kara-Khanid Khanate from the 10th Century until it was taken by the Kara-Khitan Khanate in the twelfth century.
The Kara-Khitan or Qara-Khitai Khanate (; ), also known as Western Liao () ( 1124-1218 ) was a Khitan empire in Central Asia.
European maps showed the land of " Kara-Kithay " somewehere in Central Asia for centuries after the disappearance of the Kara-Khitan Khanate.
< caption > Sovereigns of Kara-Khitan Khanate 1124 or 1125-1221 </ caption >
Kara-Khitan Khanate -
It originates from the word Khitan (, Qìdān ), the name of a nomadic people who founded the Liao Dynasty which ruled much of Northern China from 907 to 1125, and who had a state of their own ( Kara-Khitan Khanate ) centered around today's Kyrgyzstan for another century thereafter.
In 1141, Yelü Dashi won the battle of Qatwan against a Seljuk army commanded by Sanjar, as a result, Khwarezm became a vassal of the Kara-Khitan Khanate.
Then from 1218 to 1220 Genghis Khan and his Mongols launched the invasion of Central Asia and destroyed the Kara-Khitan Khanate and the Khwarezmid Empire, including the splendid capital of the latter, Gurganj.
** Western Liao ( 1124 – 1218 ), or Kara-Khitan Khanate, Khitan empire in Central Asia
# Redirect Kara-Khitan Khanate
* Emperor Renzong of Western Liao ( reign: 1150-1164 ), a sovereign of the Kara-Khitan Khanate
Kara-Khitan and Chinese
The empire was usurped by the Naimans under Kuchlug in 1211 ; traditional Chinese, Persian and Arab sources considered the usurpation to be the end of the Kara-Khitan rule.
Kara-Khitan and ;
The Kara-Khitans became absorbed into the Mongol empire ; a segment of the Kara-Khitan troops had previously already joined the Mongol army fighting against Kuchlug.
Kara-Khitan and 1124
The language was the official language of the Liao Dynasty ( 907 – 1125 ) and Kara-Khitan Khanate ( 1124 – 1218 ).
Kara-Khitan and –
In the mid-12th century, an independent state of Khorazm along the Oxus River broke away from the weakening Karakitai, but the bulk of the Kara-Khitan lasted until the Mongol invasion of Genghis Khan in 1219 – 1221.
The Khitan fled west after their defeat by the Tungusic Jurchens ( later known as Manchus ) and founded the Kara-Khitan or Western Liao dynasty ( 1125 – 1218 ) in eastern Kazakhstan.
Tibetan Empire, Kingdom of Khotan, Liao Dynasty, Western Xia, Jin Dynasty ( 1115 – 1234 ), Kara-Khitan Khanate, Mongol Empire, Northern Yuan Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, Nguyễn Dynasty, Joseon Dynasty, Bogd Khaanate of Mongolia and North Korea also use non-Chinese era names.
Kara-Khitan and 1218
In 1218 Genghis Khan destroyed the Kara-Khitan Kingdom after which the Khitan passed into obscurity.
In 1218, Kuchlug was killed by the advancing Mongol army, and the territories of the Kara-Khitan taken.
After the destruction of the Kara-Khitan realm by the Mongols under Genghis Khan in 1218, the Kara-Khitans became absorbed into the Mongol empire.
Kara-Khitan and ),
From the 6th to the 13th century it grew larger and more populous than modern Samarkand and was controlled by the Western Turks, Arabs ( who converted the area to Islam ), Persian Samanids, Kara-Khanid Turks, Seljuk Turks, Kara-Khitan, and Khorezmshah before the Mongols arrived in 1220.
On the same line, " Kara-Khitan " literally means in Mongolian " Khar ( Хар ) Kidan ( Хятан ), Since no direct records from the empire survive today, the only surviving historical records about the empire come from outside sources.
Yelü Dashi ( 耶律大石 Yēlǜ Dàshí or 耶律達實 Yēlǜ Dáshí ), or Yeh-Lü Ta-Shih ( r. 1124-1143 ) was the founder of the Western Liao dynasty, or the Kara-Khitan Khanate.
Kara-Khitan and also
Buraq Hajib, also spelt Baraq Hajib, was a Kara-Khitan who founded a dynasty in the southern Persian province of Kirman the early 13th century after the conquest of the Central Asian Sinitic state of the Kara-Khitans by the Mongols.
Kara-Khitan and known
The Khitan in northern China were known as خطا in Arabic ( Khata ) and are mentioned by Muslim chroniclers as having fought against Muslims and founded the Kara-Khitan Khanate.
Kara-Khitan and was
The Kara-Khitan at the time were Buddhists and not Christian, and there is no reason to suppose Yelü Dashi was ever called Prester John.
Zhilugu was allowed to remain as the nominal ruler but died two years later, and many historians regard his death as the end of the Kara-Khitan empire.
Buraq Hajib was a scion of the Kara-Khitan Gurkhan Yelü Zhilugu.
After Jebe scored great victories over Kuchlug of Kara-Khitan, Genghis Khan himself was said to be jealous and was afraid Jebe would rebel against him.
When last Tayan Khan was killed after a battle with Genghis Khan in 1203, his son Kuchlug with his remaining Naiman troops fled to the Kara-Khitan.
His victory at Samarkand ( Battle of Qatwan ) against the Muslim Great Seljuk ruler Ahmad Sanjar, and his amicable relations with Nestorian Christianity, which flourished in the Kara-Khitan Khanate, led to his association with the legend of Prester John, a Christian king in the east who was " destined " to vanquish Islam.
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