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    Nomadic people originally from Mongolia and Manchuria

    The Khitan people were a historical nomadic people from Northeast Asia who, from the 4th century, inhabited an area corresponding to parts of modern Mongolia, Northeast China and the Russian Far East. As a people descended from the proto-Mongols through the Xianbei, Khitans spoke the now-extinct Khitan language, a Para-Mongolic language related to the Mongolic languages. The Khitan people founded and led the Liao dynasty, which dominated a vast area of Siberia, Mongolia and Northern China. The Khitans of the Liao dynasty used two independent writing systems for their language: Khitan small script and Khitan large script. After the fall of the Liao dynasty in 1125 following the Jurchen invasion, many Khitans followed Yelü Dashi's group westward to establish the Qara Khitai or Western Liao dynasty, in Central Asia, which lasted nearly a century before falling to the Mongol Empire in 1218. Wikipedia

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    The Khitan people (Khitan small script: ; Chinese: 契丹; pinyin: Qìdān) were a historical nomadic people from Northeast Asia who, from the 4th century, inhabited an area corresponding to parts of modern Mongolia, Northeast China and the Russian Far East.. As a people descended from the proto-Mongols through the Xianbei, [1] [2] Khitans spoke the now-extinct Khitan language, a Para-Mongolic ...
  3. worldhistory.org

    The Khitan people formed the Liao dynasty and ruled parts of Mongolia, Manchuria, and northern China from 907 to 1125 CE. Adopting elements of Chinese government and culture, the Khitan were more than a match for their rivals the Song dynasty of China and Goryeo kingdom of Korea, and they provided a model of conquest and assimilation which would be repeated much more successfully by the later ...
  4. ancient-origins.net

    The Khitan people were a nomadic tribe that lived in Manchuria, in the northeastern part of China. Towards the end of the 9th century AD, the Khitan people emerged as a powerful force in the northern part of China and even managed to establish their own dynasty, the Liao Dynasty. Khitan domination of northern China lasted for about two centuries.
  5. newworldencyclopedia.org

    When the Khitan conquered the kingdom of Balhae, the border with Korea had been pushed to the Yalu River. Korea underwent significant transformations at the same time. Goryeo, founded in 918, eventually unified the entire Korean Peninsula.The Silla kingdom, which had ruled most of the peninsula since the seventh century, fell in 935. In 993, the Khitan invaded Goryeo's northwest border with ...
  6. britannica.com

    The first people known to have spoken a Mongol language were the Khitans. Mentioned from the 5th century ce, this people, living in the forests of Manchuria, had contacts with the Turks as well as with the Uyghurs.In 924 their leader, Abaoji, defeated the Kyrgyz and offered the Uyghurs the possibility of a resettlement in their former country.The Khitans conquered northern China, which they ...
  7. en.wikipedia.org

    Khitan (Arabic: ختان) or Khatna (Arabic: ختنة) is the Arabic term for circumcision, [1] [2] and the Islamic term for the practice of religious male circumcision in Islamic culture. [3] Male circumcision is widespread in the Muslim world, [3] and accepted as an established practice by all Islamic schools of jurisprudence. [2] [4] [5] It is considered a sign of belonging to the wider ...
  8. simple.wikipedia.org

    Khitan or Khitai were a nomadic people in northeastern Asia.They lived in the Mongolian plateau, northeastern China, and Russian Far East.. Historical records first mention the Khitans in the 4th century. [1] From the 10th to early 12th century, the Khitans ruled over Manchuria and parts of northern China. [2]Khitans were the first people known to speak a Mongolic language (the Khitan language).
  9. britannica.com

    Khitān, in Islam, circumcision of the male; by extension it may also refer to the circumcision of the female (properly khafḍ). Muslim traditions (Ḥadīth) recognize khitān as a pre-Islamic rite customary among the Arabs and place it in the same category as the trimming of mustaches, the cutting of

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