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    The Merkit (/ˈmɜːrkɪt/; Mongolian: [ˈmircɪt]; lit. 'Wise Ones') was one of the five major tribal confederations of Mongol or Turkic origin in the 12th-century...
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  • the Mongol Empire in Central Asia included the destruction of surviving Merkit and Naimans (which involved forays into Cumania) and the conquest of Qara...
    19 KB (1,972 words) - 11:21, 24 February 2025
  • 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...
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    For many months before Jochi's birth, Börte had been a captive of the Merkit tribe, one of whom forcibly married and raped her. Although there was thus...
    25 KB (3,089 words) - 04:33, 14 January 2025
  • remnants of the Merkit and Naimans, fought at the junction of the Bukhtarma with the Irtysh in late 1208 or very early 1209. The Merkit had a longstanding...
    11 KB (1,135 words) - 23:10, 31 December 2024
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    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...
    114 KB (14,409 words) - 07:35, 24 February 2025
  • and the accession of Möngke Khan in 1251. Oghul Qaimish was born into the Merkit tribe and married Güyük in the 1220s. She played little role in his political...
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    in connection with the final destruction of the Tatar Tariat Tatar The Merkits was a Mongol tribe or potentially a Mongolised Turkic group who opposed...
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    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...
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  • Temüjin was made official, the Burgi Escarpment was attacked by the Three Merkit, who were a confederation of three tribes inhabiting the basin of the Selenga...
    16 KB (2,116 words) - 13:07, 29 January 2025
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    Khan (after the death of Genghis in 1227). He married Oghul Qaimish of the Merkit clan. In 1233, Güyük, along with his maternal cousin Alchidai and the Mongol...
    21 KB (2,442 words) - 18:46, 7 November 2024
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    clan of the Onggirat tribe, Hö'elün was originally married to Chiledu, a Merkit aristocrat; she was captured shortly after her wedding by Yesügei, an important...
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    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...
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    Borjigin Chonos Dughlat Eljigin Gorlos Jalair Katagan Kerait Khongirad Manghud Merkit Naiman Oirat Olkhonud Ongud* Qara Khitai Qara'unas Sunud Taichiud Tatar...
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  • the Mongol tribes. Temujin liberates Salkit prisoners from a group of Merkits, who they then slaughter and rob. The newly freed men join Temujin and...
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    husband was a member of the Merkit clan. Some sources state that his name was Qudu (d. 1217), son of Toqto'a Beki of the Merkits. However, Rashid-al-Din Hamadani...
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    already married, in 1204 his father gave him Töregene, the wife of a defeated Merkit chief. The addition of such a wife was not uncommon in steppe culture. After...
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  • the Merkit tribe. While being chased on horseback, Temüjin is shot with an arrow but survives. Börte, however, is kidnapped and taken to the Merkit camp...
    39 KB (3,726 words) - 01:49, 5 February 2025
  • step-mother, were abducted, by the Three Merkits; Wang Khan, Jamukha and Temüjin combined forces against the Merkits to recover Börte. In 1201, the leaders...
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    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...
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