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  2. Nomadic empire - Wikipedia

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    The Xianbei state or Xianbei confederation was a nomadic empire which existed in modern-day Inner Mongolia, northern Xinjiang, Northeast China, Gansu, Mongolia, Buryatia, Zabaykalsky Krai, Irkutsk Oblast, Tuva, Altai Republic and eastern Kazakhstan from 156 to 234 CE.

  3. Society of the Mongol Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Mongol class largely lead separate lives, although over time there was a considerable cultural influence, especially in Persia and China. Some Mongols tended to make the transition from a nomadic way of life, based in yurt tents and herding livestock, to living in cities as the imposed rulers of a local population backed up by the Mongol ...

  4. Khazars - Wikipedia

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    The Khazars [a] (/ ˈ x ɑː z ɑːr z /) were a nomadic Turkic people that, in the late 6th century CE, established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, and Kazakhstan. [10]

  5. Turkoman (ethnonym) - Wikipedia

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    Turkoman, also known as Turcoman [note 1] (English: / ˈ t ɜːr k ə m ə n /), [2] was a term for the people of Oghuz Turkic origin, widely used during the Middle Ages.Oghuz Turks were a western Turkic people that, in the 8th century A.D, formed a tribal confederation in an area between the Aral and Caspian seas in Central Asia, and spoke the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family.

  6. Nomads of India - Wikipedia

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    Those Bedia that are still nomadic often employ Muslim Mirasis to train their girls to sing and dance. The Bedia provide services to certain patron families. in North India Boria also known as Baurasi [19] The Boriya are a sub-group of the Pasi community, and speak the Awadhi dialect . Traditionally nomadic, often employed as village watchmen ...

  7. Eurasian nomads - Wikipedia

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    It was also common for nomadic men to marry foreign princesses. [17] These marriages were an important part of the empire-building process. [16] Eurasian steppe nomads shared common Earth-rooted cosmological beliefs based on the themes of sky worship. [18]

  8. Kipchaks - Wikipedia

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    The early 11th century saw a massive Turkic nomadic migration towards the Islamic world. [26] The first waves were recorded in the Kara-Khanid Khanate in 1017–18. [26] It is unknown whether the Cumans conquered the Kipchaks or were simply the leaders of the confederacy of the Kipchak–Turkic tribes. [26]

  9. Cumania - Wikipedia

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    4.2 Notes. 5 Further reading. ... Ghaznavid Empire 963–1186; ... By the 11th and 12th centuries, the nomadic confederacy of the Cumans and ...