Merkity (Mongolian people)
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Wikidata:
Q1059046
Library of congress:
sh2011000877
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: 2010547489: Tivanenko, A.V. Poiski utrachennogo t︠s︡arstva, 2010.
- Russian Wikipedia, Feb. 24, 2011(Merkity: also Mergedy, prob. from Mong. merged "accurate, clever", a Mongolian people coming into the empire of Genghis Khan in the XIII c. They lived in the Zabaikalʹe, in the territory of contemporary Buriatia. Some say they are the ancestors of the modern Buriats)
Wikipedia description:
The Merkit (; Mongolian: [ˈmircɪt]; lit. 'Wise Ones') was one of the five major tribal confederations of Mongol or Turkic origin in the 12th-century Mongolian Plateau. The Merkits lived in the basins of the Selenga and lower Orkhon River (modern south Buryatia and Selenge Province). After a struggle of over 20 years, they were defeated in 1200 by Genghis Khan and were incorporated into the Mongol Empire.
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