Ethnic group descending from the Oirat Mongol tribes
"Dzungars" redirects here. For the empire established by Dzungar people, see Dzungar Khanate.
Dzungars
ᠵᠡᠭᠦᠨᠭᠠᠷ
Mongol Prince (Taiji) from Ili and other regions and his wife, Huang Qing Zhigong Tu, 1769.
Total population
658,372-668,372
Regions with significant populations
China
250,000 (2013 estimate)
Mongolia
205,000 (2010 census)
Russia
183,372 (Kalmyk)[1]
Kyrgyzstan
12,000 (Kalmyk)[2]
Ukraine
325 (Kalmyk)[3]
United States
1,500 (Kalmyk)[4]
Languages
Oirat, Chagatai
Religion
Tibetan Buddhism
Dzungar people
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
準噶爾
Simplified Chinese
准噶尔
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Zhǔngá'ěr
Wade–Giles
Chun3-ka2-'erh3
IPA
[ʈʂwə̀n.kǎ àɚ]
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic
Зүүнгар, Mongolian pronunciation:[tsuːŋˈɢɑr]
Mongolian script
ᠵᠡᠭᠦᠨᠭᠠᠷ
Kazakh name
Kazakh
Жоңғар [ʑwʊɴˈʁɑɾ] Joñğar جوڭگار
The Dzungar people (also written as Zunghar or Junggar; from the Mongolian words züün gar, meaning 'left hand') are the many Mongol Oirat tribes who formed and maintained the Dzungar Khanate in the 17th and 18th centuries. Historically, they were one of the major tribes of the Four Oirat confederation. They were also known as the Eleuths or Ööled, from the Qing dynasty euphemism for the hated word "Dzungar",[5] and as the "Kalmyks". In 2010, 15,520 people claimed "Ööled" ancestry in Mongolia.[6] An unknown number also live in China, Russia and Kazakhstan.
^Итоги ВПН 2010 Archived 2016-06-05 at the Wayback Machine All Russian census, 2010
^"PRESIDENT.MN". Archived from the original on 6 December 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
^State statistics committee of Ukraine – National composition of population, 2001 census (Ukrainian)
^Guchinova, Elsa-Blair M. (Fall 2002). "Kalmyks in the United States". Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia. 41 (2): 8. doi:10.2753/AAE1061-195941027. S2CID 144027029. Retrieved 2023-04-25.
^C.P. Atwood-Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire, p. 425
^"National Census 2010 of Mongolia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-15.
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ended in 1757 with the defeat of the Oirats of the Dzungar Khanate against the Qing Empire, in the Dzungar–Qing Wars; they were the last of the Mongol groups...
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Khanate in the 1720s and 80,000 people were killed. By that period, Upper Mongolian population reached 200,000. The Dzungar Khanate conquered by the Qing...
to the mid-18th century Dzungar genocide, the term "Dzungaria" could cover a wider area, coterminous with the Oirat-led Dzungar Khanate. Although Dzungaria...
the Ili River after the fall of the Dzungar Khanate in c. 1758. They were largely mixed with the Dzungarpeople and Torghut of the region. When Outer...
The Dzungar conquest of Altishahr resulted in the Tibetan Buddhist Dzungar Khanate in Dzungaria conquering and subjugating the Genghisid-ruled Yarkent...
after the Qing began their domination of the Dzungarpeople. "Historians estimate that a million people were slaughtered and the land so devastated that...
for the Qing to fear the Dzungar; by the time the Seventh Dalai Lama died in 1757 at the age of 49, the entire Dzungarpeople had been practically exterminated...
inhabited by steppe-dwelling, nomadic Mongolic-speaking, Tibetan Buddhist Dzungars, while the Tarim Basin (Altishahr) was inhabited by Sedentary, oasis-dwelling...
Dzungaria was inhabited by steppe dwelling, nomadic Tibetan Buddhist Dzungarpeople, while the Tarim Basin was inhabited by sedentary, oasis dwelling, Turkic-speaking...
China. Known as the last great Oirat hero, Amursana was the last of the Dzungar rulers. The defeat of his rebel forces by Qing dynasty Chinese armies in...
ᠴᠡᠸᠡᠩᠷᠠᠪᠳᠠᠨ; 1643–1727) was a Choros (Oirats) prince and the Khong Tayiji of the Dzungar Khanate from 1697 (following the death of his uncle and rival Galdan Boshugtu...
absorbed into the Khalkha Mongols, and Erdenebüren Olots (3,000 people) retained their Oirat heritage. Demographics of Mongolia Dzungarpeople Eleut v t e...
their Buddhist legacy and were led believe that the "infidel Kalmuks" (Dzungarpeople) were the ones who built Buddhist monuments in their area. The Encyclopaedia...
inhabited by the Oirat Mongol-speaking Dzungarpeople, while the Tarim Basin was inhabited by sedentary Muslim Uyghur people. They were governed separately until...
AD: The Dzungar genocide (Chinese: 準噶爾滅族; lit. 'extermination of the Dzungar tribe') was the mass extermination of the Mongol Dzungarpeople by the Qing...
Mongolian states (Northern Yuan Dynasty, Dzungar Khanate, Four Oirat) This section contains list of wars involving Dzungar Khanate and Kalmyk Khanate. This section...
Mongols created a land devoid of Dzungars, which was followed by the Qing sponsored settlement of millions of other people in Dzungaria. In northern Xinjiang...
by a group of mostly Kagyu monasteries. The Tibetans appealed to the Dzungarpeople, who invaded Tibet and killed Lha-bzang Khan in late 1717. Tsangyang...
leaders Galdan Boshugtu Khan, Tsewang Rabtan and Galdan Tseren. The Dzungarpeople had been converted to Tibetan Buddhism in the early 17th century and...
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