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The Xiongnu (Chinese: 匈奴; pinyin: Xiōngnú, [ɕjʊ́ŋ.nǔ]) were a tribal confederation of nomadic peoples who, according to ancient Chinese sources, inhabited...

Other elements seem to indicate a Mongolic or Serbi-Mongolic origin of the Xiongnu : Genghis Khan designated the era of Modu Chanyu, in a letter addresed...

dynasty and Republic of China, abolished in 1930 Xiongnu, mentioned in Chinese sources, were possibly of Proto-Turkic or Turkic origin (disputed) and are...

China. Mughal-Mongol genealogy Tellurocracy Xiongnu origin of Mongol Destruction under the Mongol Empire Mongol dynasty (disambiguation) Mongol khanate (disambiguation)...

to a number of sources, one of the ancestors of the Mongols were the Xiongnu, although it is not yet known whether they were proto-Mongols.[citation needed]...

The vast Xiongnu empire (209 BC–93 AD) was followed by the Mongolic Xianbei empire (93–234 AD), which also ruled more than the entirety of present-day...

the Xiongnu of the 2nd century BC. The Xiongnu may not have been Mongol, but Tengri is common to several Central Asian peoples, including the Mongols. The...

Wuluohun tribe of the Shiwei people, who were predominantly Mongolic-speaking. Even though Chinese historians routinely ascribed Xiongnu origin to various...

a Mongolic origin. The first significant appearance of nomads came late in the 3rd century BC, when the Chinese repelled an invasion of the Xiongnu (Hsiung-nu...

believed that the Huns spoke a Finno-Ugric language, whereas the Xiongnu spoke a Turkic or Mongolic language. Similarly, some nineteenth-century Russian scholars...

the time of the Xiongnu Empire (c. 100 BC), it depicts the fictional Archug Khan's struggles to ensure his heir is legitimate and worthy of his throne...

multi-ethnic group of Mongolic and Turkic tribes.[full citation needed] It has been suggested that the language of the Huns was related to the Xiongnu. The Donghu...

the ancestral populations of Europeans and East Asians, prior to their divergence. The Xiongnu, possibly a Turkic, Mongolic, Yeniseian or multi-ethnic...

literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its division. It was established...

the theories of the Mongol origins postulated by the Outer Mongolian scholars, who have held that the Mongols had descended from the Xiongnu, more specifically...

the free dictionary. Baghatur is a historical Turkic and Mongol honorific title, in origin a term for "hero" or "valiant warrior". The Papal envoy Plano...

servants administering the Mongol Empire. The history of the Uyghur people, including their ethnic origin, is an issue of contention between Uyghur nationalists...

layer of early Turkic borrowings in Mongolic would have been received from the Xianbei, rather than from the Xiongnu. However, since the Mongolic (or Para-Mongolic)...

of the Xiongnu, some researchers (e.g. Duan, Lung, etc.) proposed that Göktürks belonged in particular to the Tiele confederation, likewise Xiongnu-associated...

among late Xiongnu-era individuals at two cemeteries located along the far western frontier of the Xiongnu empire and describe patterns of genetic diversity...