The defeated Khitan invaders who had surrendered were settled in isolated communities throughout Goryeo to forestall rebellion.

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.

This region is the traditional homeland of the Xianbei, Khitan, and Jurchen peoples, who built several states historically.

The Jīn Dynasty ( Jurchen: Anchun Gurun ;, ); Manchu: Aisin Gurun ; Khitan language: Nik, Niku ; ; 1115 – 1234 ), also known as the Jurchen Dynasty or Jurched Dynasty, was founded by the Wanyan ( 完顏 Wányán ) clan of the Jurchens, the ancestors of the Manchus who established the Qing Dynasty some 500 years later.

The Khitan forces were soon joined by 10, 000 Khitans, who had been subjects of the Kara-Khanid 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.

With the Song Dynasty to the south, the Khitan people of Western Manchuria, who probably spoke a language related to the Mongolic languages, created the Liao Empire in the region, which went on to control adjacent parts of Northern China as well.

Yuwen were descendants of the nomadic Xiongnu who became assimilated with the Xianbei after 89 CE and ruled the Kumo Xi and Khitan ( both Mongolic peoples ) before being defeated by Murong Huang in 344 CE, upon which Yuwen separated from the Kumo Xi and Khitan.

The fact that an alliance forged by Li Keyong with the powerful Khitan, who, like the Shatuo, were also a people of the northern steppe, was maintained, figured significantly in the expansion and ultimate triumph of the Shatuo.

* Seo Hui: The historic figure of Goryeo dynasty who made a huge decision with Khitan people who was forcefully occupying northern areas of Korean peninsula.

However, political tension soon evolved between Yelü Bei and his younger brother Yelü Deguang, who took the imperial throne of Khitan after their father Yelü Abaoji died, en route to his homeland from a relatively successful campaign against the Later Tang Dynasty.

While the Khitan did not associate Buddhism with the Chinese people because it was seen more as a Uyghur religion and thus not the religion of the Chinese, who they saw as inferior, what is not clear is the extent that Buddhism penetrated the Khitan population, as the bulk of Buddhist shrines and temples were located in the southern part of the domains of the Liao where the largely Chinese sedentary population resided.

The ruling class of the Liao were a people of nomadic origin known as the Khitan ( Qidan in Chinese ) who rose in the northeast around present-day Heilongjiang Province.

Geographically the Tuoba Xianbei ruled Inner Mongolia and northern China, the Nirun ( Yujiulu Shelun was the first to use the title Khagan in 402 ) ruled Outer Mongolia, the Khitan were concentrated in Southern Manchuria north of Korea and the Shiwei were located to the north of the Khitan.

The Khitan had their holiest Tengriist shrine on Mount Muye where portraits of their earliest ancestor Qishou Khagan, his wife Kedun and eight sons were kept in two temples.

In Korea, the rulers of the Goryeo Kingdom were able to concentrate more central authority into their own hands than in that of the nobles, and were able to fend off two Khitan invasions with their armies.

The Shiwei tribe, like the Tuoba, were originally located to the north of the Murong and Khitan.

Although Chinese and Khitan were the primary languages of administration, the empire also administered in Persian and Uyghur.

These lands were once occupied by the Mohe tribes and Jurchen nation ; and also by various old kingdoms including Gojoseon, Balhae, Liao and the ( Khitan ) kingdoms.

By the time of the Song Dynasty, China's northern borders were met by the Khitan Liao Dynasty, the Jurchen Jin Dynasty, and the Tangut Western Xia.

For example, in 735, after the general Zhang Shougui ( 張守珪 ) scored a major victory over the Khitan, Emperor Xuanzong wanted to reward Zhang Shougui by making him a chancellor, but Zhang Jiuling pointed out that it was inappropriate to use the chancellorship as a reward, even with just the honorable title and no actual authority ( as Emperor Xuanzong considered as well ) and that giving Zhang Shougui the chancellorship for defeating the Khitan meant that there would be no other available awards if he were to defeat the Xi and the Eastern Tujue as well.

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.

The ethnicity of the Mergids is somewhat obscure ; it is likely that they were Turkic or Mongolic ( related to Mongols, Naimans, Keraits, and Khitan ), but it has also been postulated that they are more closely related to Paleosiberian, such as the Chukchi, or to Tungusic peoples, such as the Manchu and the Evenks.

The Khitan scripts were the writing systems for the now-extinct Khitan language, used in the 10th-12th century by the Khitan people.

He attempted to expand his influence in international politics involving the Tang, the Göktürks, the Khitan, Silla and some independent Mohe tribes.

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.

In 1218 Genghis Khan destroyed the Kara-Khitan Kingdom after which the Khitan passed into obscurity.

Meanwhile Balhae fell after an invasion by the Khitan Liao Dynasty and the refugees including the last Crown Prince emigrated to Goryeo.

These four important branches, the Shiwei, Khitan, Murong and Tuoba all arose as discernible entities in the middle of the 3rd century just after the Xianbei Empire had fallen in 235.

He falls from grace after he is revealed to be a Khitan, and after he is wrongly accused of murdering several fellow pugilists to conceal his identity.

The Khitan scripts continued to be in use to some extent by the Jurchens for several decades after the fall of the Liao Dynasty, until the Jurchens fully switched to a script of their own.

The Khitan, however, had two scripts of their own and many Mongolic words are found in their half-deciphered writings that are usually found with a parallel Chinese text ( for example, nair = sun, sair = moon, tau = five, jau = hundred, m. r = horse, im. a = goat, n. q = dog, m. ng = silver, ju. un = summer, n. am. ur = autumn, u. ul = winter, heu. ur = spring, tau. l. a = rabbit, t. q. a = hen and m. g. o = snake ).

The Khitan spoke a proto mongolic language called Khitan language and had developed two scripts for writing their language: a logographic script derived from Chinese characters, and another derived from Uighur.

Various ethnic groups and their respective kingdoms, including the Sushen, Donghu, Xianbei, Wuhuan, Mohe, Khitan and Jurchens have risen to power in Manchuria.

In 954, his army defeated combined Khitan and Northern Han forces, ending their ambition of toppling the Later Zhou dynasty.

Even at times when a Chinese dynasty had to bribe nomads from raiding their border such as in the Han Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, the emperors gave " gifts " to the Xiongnu and the Khitan.

Partial characters ( and their derivations ) also provide building blocks for the writing systems of some historical ( e. g., Khitan and Tangut ) languages and modern ( e. g., Japanese ) languages.

Various ethnic groups and their respective kingdoms, including the Sushen, Donghu, Xianbei, Wuhuan, Mohe and Khitan have risen to power in Manchuria.

Or it may be that Ketboga died in Mameluke hands for reasons of military custom, ( his name possibly indicates a link to Khitan customs ), or because he was Christian but Nestorian Christian so that he would not take part in mainstream Orthodox Christian communion and this may have led to him refusing treatment for his wound not so common among the Mamelukes for their captives to engage in, while it is unclear if he was influenced by the recommendation and custom " not to uncover private parts " possibly post -" Great Mongol ( Mongol can be abbreviation for or version of the " Mengwu Shiwei ") United Fighters State " which is the translation of the contemporary historical name.

There is evidence to suggest that the Khitan populace maintained their animistic belief systems along with their rituals.

In an embarrassing event, Su Song admitted to the emperor that the calendar of the Khitan people was in fact a bit more accurate than their own, resulting in the fining and punishment of officials in the Bureau of Astronomy and Calendar.