12th-century tribal confederation of the Mongolian Plateau
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Merkit" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(December 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Merkit Three Mergids
11th century–1200
Mongol Empire c.1207
Status
nomadic confederacy
Capital
Not specified
Religion
Shamanism
Government
Elective monarchy
Khan
Historical era
Post-classical Central Asia
• Established
11th century
• Disestablished
1200
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Liao dynasty
Proto-Mongols
Mongol Empire
Today part of
Mongolia Russia (Buryatia)
History of Mongolia
Timeline
States
Rulers
Nobility
Culture
Politics
Geography
Language
Religion
Prehistoric period
Afanasievo culture
3300–2500 BC
Chemurchek culture
2750–1900 BC
Munkhkhairkhan culture
1800–1600 BC
Sagsai culture
1500–1000 BC
Ulaanzuukh culture
1450–1150 BC
Deer stones culture
1400–700 BC
Slab-grave culture
1100–300 BC
Chandman culture
700–300 BC
Pazyryk culture
600–300 BC
Ancient period
Xiongnu
209 BC–93 AD
Xianbei state
93–234
Rouran Khaganate
330–555
Göktürks (First, Eastern,
and Second Turkic Khaganates)
555–630 682–744
Xueyantuo
628–646
Tang protectorate
647–682
Uyghur Khaganate
744–840
Liao dynasty
907–1125
Medieval period
Mongol khanates
9th–12th century
Khamag Mongol
1130–1206
Mongol Empire
1206–1368
Yuan dynasty
1271–1368
Northern Yuan
1368–1635
Oirat Confederation
1399–1634
Dzungar Khanate
1634–1757
Qing dynasty
1691–1911
Modern period
National Revolution
1911
Bogd Khaganate
1911–1919
Chinese occupation
1919–1921
People's Revolution (Soviet intervention in Bogd Khanate)
1921 1921–1924
People's Republic
1924–1992
Democratic Revolution
1990
Modern Mongolia
1990–present
v
t
e
The Merkit (literally "skillful/wise ones"; Mongolian: ᠮᠡᠷᠬᠢᠳ ; Мэргид, romanized: Mergid; simplified Chinese: 蔑儿乞; traditional Chinese: 蔑兒乞; pinyin: Miè'érqǐ) was one of the five major tribal confederations (khanlig) of probably Mongol[1][2][3][4] or Turkic origin[5][6][note 1] 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).[8] After a struggle of over 20 years, they were defeated in 1200 by Genghis Khan and were incorporated into the Mongol Empire.
^History of the Mongolian People's Republic. — Nauka Pub. House, Central Dept. of Oriental Literature, 1973. — p. 99.
^Jeffrey Tayler. Murderers in Mausoleums: Riding the Back Roads of Empire Between Moscow and Beijing. — Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. — p. 1. — ISBN 9780547523828.
^Bertold Spuler. The Muslim world: a historical survey. — Brill Archive, 1969. — p. 118.
^Elza-Bair Mataskovna Gouchinova. The Kalmyks. — Routledge, 2013. — p. 10. — ISBN 9781135778873.
^Soucek, Svat. A History of Inner Asia. — Cambridge University Press, 2000. — p. 104. — ISBN 978-0521657044.
^Гурулёв С. А. Реки Байкала: Происхождение названий. – Иркутск: Восточно-Сибирское книжное издательство, 1989 – 122 с. ISBN 5-7424-0286-4
^Christopher P. Atwood – Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire ISBN 9780816046713, Facts on File, Inc. 2004.
^History of Mongolia, Volume II, 2003
Cite error: There are <ref group=note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=note}} template (see the help page).
the Mongol Empire in Central Asia included the destruction of surviving Merkit and Naimans (which involved forays into Cumania) and the conquest of Qara...
Khabul's grandson Yesugei abducted a Khongirad woman as his bride from the Merkits. He participated in a series of raids launched by Hotula Khan against the...
difficult youth. The Merkits captured him during his childhood and he was reduced to slavery. It is possible that he left the Merkit after being freed by...
during action against the Merkit, when he was 22 years old. Subutai's role was to act as the vanguard and defeat one of the Merkit camps at the Tchen River...
in connection with the final destruction of the Tatar Tariat Tatar The Merkits were a Mongol tribe or potentially a Mongolised Turkic people who opposed...
Bayan of the Merkid (died 1340), or Bayan (Chinese: 伯顔; pinyin: Bóyán), was a Mongol general of the Merkid clan and an official in the Yuan dynasty. Bayan...
Hö'elün, originally of the Olkhonud clan, whom Yesügei had abducted from her Merkit bridegroom Chiledu. The origin of his birth-name is contested: the earliest...
believed that Sochigel had assisted the Merkits and enabled them to find the camp, as well as preferring her new Merkit husband. Weatherford, Jack (2005-03-22)...
former Khayishan faction led by the Qipchaq commander El Temür and the Merkit commander Bayan, a governor in Henan. This ended in the victory of Tugh...
of Temüjin, was abducted by the Three Merkits; Wang Khan, Jamukha and Temüjin combined forces against the Merkits to recover her. In 1201, the leaders...
sable jacket. Soon after the marriage between them took place, the Three Merkits attacked their family camp at dawn and kidnapped Börte. She was given to...
followers (including lower classes), a successful campaign against the Merkits and the shaman Kokochu proclaiming "... that the Eternal Blue Sky had set...
campaign tracked the Merkits and Naimans and defeated them at the Irtysh in either late 1208 or very early 1209. After that defeat, the Merkit and Naiman regrouped...
brother) Jamukha of the Jadran clan. With their help, Temujin defeated the Merkit tribe, rescued his wife Börte, and went on to defeat the Naimans and the...
(1206–1368) and Northern Yuan (1368–1691). Medieval Mongol tribes like Merkit, Tayichiud, Jalairs and Khamag Mongols inhabited in the krai. In the 17th...
Kara-Khanid Khanate Kimek Khanate Keraite Khanate Naiman Khanate Tatar Khanate Merkit Khanate Nogai Khanate Astrakhan Khanate Besh Tau El Khanate of Bukhara Khanate...
strong possibility Jochi, born after Börte had been kidnapped and raped by Merkit tribesmen, was illegitimate, Genghis was not particularly concerned by this;...
Global Information
