NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Naimans

The Naimans (Naiman also means 'eight' in Mongolian) were a Mongol people dwelling on the steppe of central Asia, closely related to the Kara-Khitai, and subservient to them until 1177. Like the Khitai, many of them were Nestorian Christians. Mongols (Mongolian: ÐœÐ¾Ð½Ð³Ð¾Ð» Mongol, Turkish: MoÄŸollar) are an ethnic group that originated in what is now Mongolia, Russia, and China or more specifically on the Central Asian plateau north of the Gobi desert and south of Siberia. ... Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible boundaries for the region Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. ... This article needs cleanup. ... The term Nestorianism is eponymous, even though the person who lent his name to it always denied the associated belief. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Christianity. ...

More than 400,000 of the Kazakh population are Naimans [1]. Their original place of inhabitants is eastern Kazakhstan. Some Naimans dissimilated with the Kyrgyz and Uzbek ethnicities. Kazakh may refer to An ethnic group: the Kazakhs The Kazakh language The Culture of Kazakhstan Suhbat. ... Kyrgyz (also spelled Kirghiz) are a Turkic ethnic group found primarily in Kyrgyzstan. ...

The following map shows the approximate location of the Naimans at about the year 1200, before the Mongol unification by Genghis Khan. For other uses, see Genghis Khan (disambiguation). ...

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Categories: Ethnic group stubs | Mongol peoples For the anti-Talmudic Jewish sect, see Karaite Judaism. ... The Merkit are a Kazakh tribe that inhabited southeastern Siberia during the Middle Ages, regarded by their neighbours as being particularly ferocious. ... Jadran is relating to the Croatian name for the Adriatic Sea a Croatian movie company: Jadran Film a Croatian commercial TV station: TV Jadran Jadran is also a popular Croatian surname and a frequently used name for sports clubs. ... Disambiguation: Jalair could mean 1) The Jalairid Emirate or Khanate which replaced the Ilkhanate in Mesopotamia and Anatolia and ruled them throughout the 14th century 2) Jalair (pre-Genghis Mongols) where Mukhali, one of Genghis Khans great generals came from ... The Naimans or Naiman Mongols (Naiman also means eight in Mongolian) were a Mongol people dwelling in central Asia, closely related to the Kara-Khitai, and subservient to them until 1177. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Historically, the term Tatar (or Tartar) has been ambiguously used by Europeans to refer to many different peoples of Inner Asia and Northern Asia. ...

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