- The Qara
Khitai, or Kara
Khitai (simplified Chinese: 哈剌契丹;
traditional Chinese: 喀喇契丹; pinyin: Kālā Qìdān or Chinese: 黑契丹; pinyin: Hēi Qìdān; lit. 'Black...
- Look up Khitan or
khitan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Khitan or
Khitai may
refer to:
Khitan (cir****cision), the
Islamic cir****cision rite Khitan...
-
Achaemenid Empire,
various Turkic forces and the
Mongol Empire. The Qara
Khitai also
briefly controlled the
majority of Turkestan's land.
Known as Turan...
- Iran from 1077 to 1231;
first as v****als of the
Seljuk Empire and the Qara
Khitai (Western Liao dynasty), and from
circa 1190 as
independent rulers up until...
-
Khitan or
Kitan ( in
large script or in small,
Khitai; Chinese: 契丹語, Qìdānyǔ), also
known as Liao, is an
extinct language once
spoken in
Northeast Asia...
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capital Zhongdu. His
general Jebe
annexed the
Central Asian state of Qara
Khitai in 1218.
Genghis was
provoked to
invade the
Khwarazmian Empire the following...
- The
Mongol Empire conquered the Qara
Khitai (Western Liao Empire) in the year 1218 AD.
Prior to the invasion, war with the
Khwarazmian Empire and the usurpation...
- and
Naimans (which
involved forays into ****ania) and the
conquest of Qara
Khitai.
These were
followed by a
major campaign against Khwarazm.
Expansion into...
- many
Khitans followed Yelü Dashi's
group westward to
establish the Qara
Khitai or
Western Liao dynasty, in
Central Asia,
which lasted nearly a century...
- they came
under the
suzerainty of the
Seljuk Empire followed by the Qara
Khitai (Western Liao dynasty) who
defeated the
Seljuks in the
Battle of Qatwan...
