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The common name of the work as it is referred to today is The Secret History of the Mongols, corresponding to the edited work compiled in the late 1300s with the Chinese title Secret History of the Yuan (元秘史; Yuán mìshǐ) and the Mongolian title Mongɣol-un niɣuča tobčiyan, re-transcribed from Chinese (忙中豁侖紐察脫卜察安 ...
Only Mongol princesses who married Goryeo kings in Korea continued the queens' traditions in a small scale. A story from Khutulun's life is featured in Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's Turandot. In the late 14th century, the Mongol Qaghan Elbeg made a fatal mistake. He killed his blood brother in order to marry his wife, Oljei the Beauty, and ...
Many took prominent positions in Genghis' Mongol Empire—these included Chinqai, the Muslim merchant and diplomat Ja'far Khoja, and Qaban, an Uriankhai whose son Subutai became one of the most formidable Mongol generals. [18] The incident of the Baljuna Covenant is omitted completely from the Secret History.
The History and the Life of Chinggis Khan: The Secret History of the Mongols. Brill Archive. ISBN 978-90-04-09236-5. Bradbury, Sue (1993). Chinggis Khan: The Golden History of the Mongols. Folio Society. Humphrey, Caroline; Onon, Urgunge (1996). Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge and Power Among the Daur Mongols. Clarendon Press.
Alan Gua and her sons, from Jami' al-tawarikh, by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani. Alan Gua (Mongolian: Алун гуа, Alun gua, lit. "Alun the Beauty".Gua or Guva/Quwa means beauty in Mongolian) is a mythical figure from The Secret History of the Mongols, eleven generations after the blue-grey wolf and the red doe, and ten generations before Genghis Khan.
Boroqul first appears in the historical record shortly after Temüjin's marriage to his wife Börte in around 1177 or 1178. [3] The Secret History of the Mongols, a traditional Mongol account of Temüjin's rise to power, notes that Boroqul was originally from the Üüshin lineage of the Jurkin tribe and was raised by Temüjin's mother Hoelun as a foundling after being saved by Jebe, a leading ...
The Secret History of the Mongols, Inner Asian Library, 7:1–2, 2004; 2nd ed., 2006. “The Identification of Geographical Names in The Secret History of the Mongols,” Sino Asiatica: Papers dedicated to Professor Liu Ts’un-yan on the occasion of his eighty-fifth birthday, Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 2002.
Most of what is known of Hö'elün's life is derived from the Secret History of the Mongols, a mid-13th-century epic poem which retold the formation of the Mongol Empire. As this source, through extolling the advice and stability she provided for her children, is very favourable towards Hö'elün, it is probable that its anonymous author had ...