Chahar Mongols

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Name (Latin)
Chahar Mongols
Other forms of name
Čaqar Mongols
Chakhar Mongols
Qahar Mongols
Tsakhar Mongols
See Also From tracing topical name
Ethnology China
Ethnology Mongolia
Mongols
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q26235
Library of congress: sh2012000373
Sources of Information
  • Work cat: Caqar-un soyul teu̇ke-yin sijir qaġudasu, 2008(Chahar Mongols; chiefly found today in Xilin Gol and Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia)
  • Ethnologue, c2000:p. 417 (Mongolian, Peripheral; dialect: Chahar (Chahaer, Chakhar, Qahar); 299,000 in China)
  • Encycl. of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire, c2004(Chakhar (Chahar, Tsakhar, Caqar, Qahar); the appanage of the last independent Mongol emperors in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Chakhar Mongols were tightly controlled by China's Qing dynasty)
  • Wikipedia, Jan. 27, 2012(Chahar Mongols; The Chahar (Mongol: Цахар) is a subgroup of Mongol people that speak the Chahar dialect and predominantly live in southeastern Inner Mongolia; after the fall of the Zunghar Khanate in c. 1758, the Qing authority resettled part of the Chahars to the Ili Region of Xinjiang. In 1911 a group of Chahars fled Xinjiang to Mongolia and contributed to the Mongolian revolution of 1921. They are known as the Selenge Tsakhar since they settled in Selenge.)