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East Asia · Ming, Joseon, Ryukyu and the later steppe

Mongol Khanate

drawn on the map 1468–1635

This entry denotes the post-1368 Mongol khanates in the steppe—the continuation of Borjigin rule after the Yuan—encompassing the Eastern Mongols (Khalkha) and the western Oirats.

Shown on the map
1468–1635
Peak area
5.2M km²
Region
East Asia

Overview

This entry denotes the post-1368 Mongol khanates in the steppe—the continuation of Borjigin rule after the Yuan—encompassing the Eastern Mongols (Khalkha) and the western Oirats. After Dayan Khan's reunification (late 15th–early 16th c.) and Altan Khan's prominence (introducing Tibetan Buddhism as a state religion and conferring the "Dalai Lama" title in 1578), the Mongols fragmented into competing groups—Khalkha, Chahar, Oirat—eventually falling under Qing suzerainty in the 17th–18th centuries.

Common questions

What was the Mongol Khanate?
This entry denotes the post-1368 Mongol khanates in the steppe—the continuation of Borjigin rule after the Yuan—encompassing the Eastern Mongols (Khalkha) and the western Oirats.
When is the Mongol Khanate shown on the map?
The border data draws the Mongol Khanate 1468–1635. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
How large was the Mongol Khanate?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Mongol Khanate covered about 5.2 million km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.

Sources

This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia article for each polity as the basis of these profiles, supplemented by Encyclopaedia Britannica, chinaknowledge.de, the World History Encyclopedia, museum and university sources, and the academic works it lists. The article this entry is anchored on:

This entry was last updated .

This entry was researched and drafted with AI from the sources above, and has not been reviewed by a historian. How entries are made

Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.

Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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