- Liao dynasty.
Muslim historians initially referred to the
state simply as "
Khitay" or "Khitai"; they may have
adopted this form of "Khitan" via the Uyghurs...
- 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...
-
Mongols (1234),
Persian history described the
conquered country as
Khitāy or
Djerdaj Khitāy (i.e., "Jurchen Cathay"). The
Mongols themselves, in
their Secret...
-
Russian sources, and
became "Cathay". In the
modern era,
words related to
Khitay are
still used as a name for
China by
Turkic peoples, such as the Uyghurs...
- the
nomadic Turkic Kirghiz, the
nomadic Mongol Qalmaq and the Han
Chinese Khitay before they
became known as Uyghurs.
There was no
single name used for their...
-
foreigners were
chosen as
governmental administrators;
Chinese and Qara-
Khitays (Khitans) were
appointed as co-managers of
gardens and
fields in Samarkand...
- Muhammad's authority.
Muhammad II then
captured Samarkand in 1207 from the Kara
Khitay,
Tabaristan in 1210 from
Bavandids and
Transoxiana from
Western Karakhanids...
- Mongolic-speaking
nomads pushed by the
Mongolic Khitay state Lyao
formed in
Northern China in 916 AD. The
Khitay nomads occupied the
Kimak and
Kipchak lands...
-
Russian sources, and
became "Cathay". In the
modern era,
words related to
Khitay are
still used as a name for
China by
Turkic peoples, such as the Uyghurs...
-
escaping the
Jurchen conquest of
their native country, the
Khitan dynasty. The
Khitay conquest of
Central Asia can thus be seen as an
internecine struggle within...
