1809 map of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture | Ili Region ( the map is drawn " upside down ": the south is on top ) showing the Xibo Eight Banners ( 锡伯八旗 ) stationed across the Ili River from the Manchu Huiyuan, Xinjiang | Fort Huiyuan ( 惠远城 ), exactly where Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County is nowadays

The modern expert on the Manchu people Pamela Kyle Crossley notes that if such a connection is indeed true, it would imply the Xianbei / Xibe undergoing a language shift from an either early Turkic or Proto-Mongolian language to a Tungusic one at some point in their history.

* Website on Xibe archery

The City of Yining borders on Huocheng County in the west and the Yining County in the east ; across the river in the south is Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County.

When the local Muslim Kazakhs and Kyrgyz felt that the rebels gained the upper hand, they joined it as well ; on the other hand, the Buddhist Kalmyks, and Xibe mostly stayed loyal to the Qing government.

The Xibe was incorporated into the Eight Banners and were stationed in Qiqihar and other cities in Manchuria.

* Xibe people in Manchuria at Qing Dynasty

The Xibe or " Xi Bo " people also believed themselves to be descendants of the Xianbei, with considerable controversies that have attributed their origins to the Jurchens, the Elunchun, and the Xianbei.

The Xibe or Sibo ( 20px Sibe ; ) are a Tungusic ethnic group living mostly in northeast China and Xinjiang.

The Xibe started to make direct contact with the Qing Dynasty when it conducted military campaigns against Russia.

In 1692, the Khorchin dedicated the Xibe, the Gūwalca and the Daur to the Kangxi Emperor in exchange for silver.

After conquering eastern Turkestan, the Qianlong Emperor garrisoned part of the Xibe there in 1764 to defend the new frontier.

The traditional dress of the Xibe was similar to the traditional dress of the Manchus.

Nowadays almost all the Xibe wear Western clothing and the traditional clothing is worn by elders during festivals.

Traditionally, the Xibe were divided into hala, clans consisting of people who shared the same surname.

Until modern times, the dwellings of the Xibe housed up to three different generations from a same family, since it was believed that while the father was alive no son could break the family clan and to the house.

The Xibe in northeast China speak Chinese as their first language.

Unlike the Manchu language, the Xibe language is reported to have eight vowel distinctions as opposed to the six found in Manchu, differences in morphology, and a complex kind of vowel harmony.

The general vocabulary and structure of Xibe has not been affected as much by the influence of Chinese as Manchu has been.

They use the Xibe script, a slightly revised Manchu script.

The name " Xibe " have been linked by some people with that of the ancient Xianbei.

The same Manchurologist, P. Crossley, suggested that the Xibe " were well known to Russians moving toward the Pacific, who named Siberia after them ".

Contains photographs of Xibe / Xibo and other ethnic groups.

* Xia, a Chinese surname, from Xia Dynasty, Chen ( state ), Dòngzú, Tujia, Xibe, etc.

In China, too, a few groups of Manchu language enthusiasts are trying to revive the language of their ancestors using available dictionaries and textbooks, and even occasional visit to Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County in Xinjiang, where the related Xibe language is still spoken natively.

On the southern side, even closer to the international border, Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County is located, which is home to many of the China's Xibe people, who were resettled to this borderland in the 18th century as part of the Manchu garrison.

The Batavi were an ancient Germanic tribe, originally part of the Chatti, that lived around the Rhine delta, in the area that the Romans called Batavia and that is currently the Netherlands, from the second half of the first century BC to the third century AD.

Beekes argued that the people later known as the Lydians and Etruscans had originally lived in northwest Anatolia, with a coastline to the Sea of Marmara, whence they were driven by the Phrygians c. 1200 BC, leaving a remnant known in antiquity as the Tyrsenoi.

Although it was an accepted part of Hadrian's personal history that he was born in Spain, his biography in Augustan History states that he was born in Rome on 24 January AD 76, of a family originally Italian, but which had lived in Spain for many generations.

That the Helvetians originally lived in southern Germany is confirmed by the Alexandrian geographer Claudius Ptolemaios ( ca.

Though his family originally lived in Hamburg, Jacob and his brother were both born in Spain.

* Dmitri Vasilyev of Astrakhan State University recently hypothesized that the Khazars moved in to the Pontic steppe region only in the late 6th century, and originally lived in Transoxiana.

Moving clockwise around the outer bailey from Mortimer's Tower, the defences include a west-facing watergate, which would originally have led onto the Great Mere ; the King's gate, a late 17th century agricultural addition ; the Swan Tower, a late 13th century tower with 16th century additions named after the swans that lived on the Great Mere ; the early 13th century Lunn's Tower ; and the 14th century Water Tower, so named because it overlooked the Lower Pool.

They originally lived in the Hawran region of southwestern Syria and settled in Wadi al-Taym in southern Lebanon.

The Jews of his day ascribed the Book of Malachi, the last book of prophecy, to Ezra but if Ezra's name was originally associated with the book, it would hardly have been dropped by the collectors of the prophetic Canon who lived only a century or two subsequent to Ezra's time.

Surviving freed slaves lived at Lemon Valley – originally the quarantine area, later for women and children, Rupert's and High Knoll, and only when numbers became too great were they sent to Cape Town and the British West Indies as labourers.

At least three species of humans lived in southern Siberia around 40, 000 years ago: H. sapiens, H. neanderthalensis, and the Denisova hominin ( originally nicknamed " Woman X ").

Tai peoples who originally lived in southwestern China, migrated into mainland Southeast Asia over a period of many centuries.

His father was originally a farm-hand and forestry worker who rose to become a forestry manager and stock agent at Halla Ltd. Claims made that Kekkonen's family had lived in a rudimentary farmhouse with no chimney were later proved to be false — a photograph of Kekkonen's childhood home had been retouched to remove the chimney.

Lang and Kornfeld noticed the ad, and the four men got together originally to discuss a retreat-like recording studio in Woodstock, but the idea evolved into an outdoor music and arts festival, although even that was initially envisioned on a smaller scale, perhaps featuring some of the big name artists who lived in the Woodstock area ( such as Bob Dylan and The Band ).

Irish immigrants in Omaha originally moved to an area in present-day North Omaha called " Gophertown ", as they lived in dirt dugouts.

While traditionally ascribed to the French painter and cook Claude Gelée who lived in the 17th century ( the story goes that Gelée was making a type of very buttery bread for his sick father, and the process of rolling the butter into the bread dough created a croissant-like finished product ), references appear before the 17th century, indicating a history that came originally through Muslim Spain and was converted from thin sheets of dough spread with olive oil to laminated dough with layers of butter, perhaps in Italy or Germany.

Another theory is that the fairies were originally worshiped as minor goddesses, such as nymphs or tree spirits, but with the coming of Christianity, they lived on, in a dwindled state of power, in folk belief.

The main contenders were the Southern Xiongnu, who inhabited a region to the south of the steppe and had now grown into a group of more than a hundred thousand herdsmen on the Xihe plain, the Xianbei, who lived in the east of the steppe residing on the plains of Manchuria, the Dingling, who originally dwelt on the banks of Lake Baikal and had already commenced trekking south into the steppes before Duo Xian destroyed the Northern Xiongnu, and the Wuhuan, who lived south of the Xianbei and were the weakest of the four.

The migrations in 175-125 BC of the Kushan ( Chinese: " Yuezhi ") tribes, who originally lived in eastern Tarim Basin before the Huns tribes dislodged them, displaced the Indo-Scythians from Central Asia.

According to this, the Scythians originally lived south of the Rhipaean mountains, until they got into a conflict with a tribe called the Issedones, pressed in their turn by the Cyclopes ; and so the Scythians decided to migrate westwards.

It was originally produced by the Native American Arawak and Carib nations because these roots were a very common plant of the rain forests where they lived.

In 1938, however, research showed that his family was of Northern Italian descent, originally called Canarisi, and had lived in Germany since the 17th century.

Primitive promiscuity ( or original promiscuity ), was the ( largely discredited ) 19th-century hypothesis that humans originally lived in a state of promiscuity or " hetaerism " prior to the advent of society as we understand it.

The magazine was originally published in 1982 by Mike Gunderloy on a spirit duplicator in his bedroom while he lived in an Alhambra, California slanshack.