- The
Dzungar people (also
written as
Zunghar or Junggar; from the
Mongolian words züün gar,
meaning 'left hand') are the many
Mongol Oirat tribes who formed...
- The
Dzungar Khanate, also
known as the
Zunghar Khanate or
Junggar Khanate, was an
Inner Asian khanate of
Oirat Mongol origin. At its
greatest extent,...
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mining and
manufacturing industries on
their lands. Additionally, the
Zunghar managed to
enact an empire-wide
system of laws and
policies to
boost the...
- 1757–58 "amounted to the
complete destruction of not only the
Zunghar state, but of the
Zunghars as a people".
After the
Qianlong Emperor led Qing
forces to...
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Zunghar Khanate expanded at the
expense of the
Kazakh Khanate in the west,
though this also
meant the
inclusion of the
Senior Horde into the
Zunghar Khanate...
-
Russian historian Lev
Gumilev wrote that Xiongnu,
Mongols (Mongol Empire,
Zunghar Khanate) and
Turkic peoples (First
Turkic Khaganate,
Uyghur Khaganate)...
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situation in Mongolia.
Yongzheng then
turned to that situation,
where the
Zunghars threatened to re-emerge, and to the southwest,
where local Miao chieftains...
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include numerous sub-ethnic
groups (Derbet, Torgut, Khoshut, Olot,
Dzungar (
Zunghar), Bayad, Zakhchin, Khoton, Myangad, Buzava)
across a wide geographical...
- The rise of the
collection of
Oirat clans into what
became known as the
Zunghar Khanate in the 1600s saw much of what is now
southern Kazakhstan leave...
- The
Battle of Oroi-Jalatu, 1756.
Chinese general Zhao ****
attacked the
Zunghars at
night in
present Wusu, Xinjiang.
Painting by
Giuseppe Castiglione. "The...
