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	Khitan
		The Khitan, in Chinese Qidan (契丹 Pinyin: qi4 dan1) or Zhendan (震旦 zhen4 dan1), were an ethnic group who dominated much of Manchuria and classified in Chinese history as one of the Eastern Hu ethnic groups (東胡族 dong1 hu2 zu2).
		Ancestors of Khitans was the Yuwen clan of the Xianbei.
		The Khitan language is Altaic, however, and its agglutinizing nature is not particularly suited to purely monosyllabic logographs.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/k/kh/khitan.html (286 words)

	The Liao Dynasty
		The Khitan thus sat in control of a wide swath of northern China that stretched from the Gulf of Bo Hai to the northern extent of the Ordos Plateau.
		The Khitan launched their third major assault against the Jurchen in the Chongan territories along the mid-reaches of the Yalu River in 989.
		The Khitan assault was quickly repulsed, but it had the effect of agitating the royal court to a state of near panic.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C04/E0406.htm (2679 words)

	Khitan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Khitan, in Chinese Qidan (契丹 Pinyin: Qìdān), were an ethnic group who dominated much of Manchuria and classified in Chinese history as one of the Tungus ethnic groups (東胡族 dōng hú zú).
		The Khitan were known as خطا in Arabic (Khata) and are mentioned by Muslim chroniclers as they initially fought with Muslims and later converted to Islam.
		The Khitan language is most probably Mongolic, however, and its agglutinizing nature is not particularly suited to purely monosyllabic logographs.
	www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/k/kh/khitan.html (275 words)

	Song Dynasty (960-1279) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Song dynasty (Chinese: 宋朝) was a ruling dynasty in China from 960-1279.
		The intervening years, known as the Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, were a time of division between north and south and of rapidly changing administrations.
		The northern Jin dynasty was overrun by the Mongols in 1234, who subsequently took control of northern China and maintained uneasy relations with the Southern Song court.
	www.muestrario.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/so/song_dynasty__960_1279_.html (1050 words)

	China - ninemsn Encarta
		In the middle of the 8th century, at the height of Tang splendour, the central government faced a disastrous rebellion by the frontier general An Lushan.
		The dispersal of political and economic power that marked the collapse of the Tang dynasty resulted in a brief period of disunion known as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (907-960).
		To the north and west the Khitan dynasty of Liao captured Hebei and Hedong in China proper, as well as Dongbei and Inner Mongolia, and forced the Song to recognize it in 1005.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573055_13____109/China.html (1563 words)

	Liao Dynasty - China History Forum, chinese history forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Nonetheless, the Khitan language is generally classified as "proto-Mongol." Despite this, a considerable amount of the vocabulary of the Khitan language comes from Turkic-Uighur sources.
		The Khitan people were sometimes subordinate to the Uighurs during the Tang Dynasty, but that ended when they (the Uighurs) moved to Xinjiang after A.D. It was then that they adopted writing from the Sogdian people (an Indo-European people) who used a form of the ancient Aramaic script.
		It is from this tribe that Abaoji was born in 872 as the son of the Yila tribe chieftain.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=779 (2584 words)

	Khitan Dynasty
		The Khitan Dynasty (契丹) 907-1125, also called the Empire of Khitan, was founded by the Yeluu[?] (耶律 ye1 luu4) family of the Khitan tribe in the final years of the Tang Dynasty, although Yeluu A Bao Ji[?] did not declare an era name until 916.
		Forty years after the establishment of Khitan Dynasty, in 947, Emperor Yeluu Ruan officially renamed to Liao Dynasty (遼 liao2).
		It was anniliated by the Jin Dynasty in 1125 however remnants led by Yelu Da Shi (耶律大石 ye1 luu4 da4 shi2, Wade-Giles: Yeh-lü Ta-Shih) established Xi (Western) Liao Dynasty 1125-1220, also known as Kara-Khitai or Qara Khitai, which survived until the arrival of Genghis Khan's Mongolian cavalries.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/kh/Khitan_dynasty.html (269 words)

	Liao Dynasty
		The Liao Dynasty was established by the Khitan tribe (Qidan).
		Since the Liao Dynasty was founded by the Khitan, the northern officials were considered superior, but the southern administrative system was actually the feudal system that was practiced in the Central Plain states.
		The Khitan dialect and the Han language were the main languages of the Liao.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_aboutchina/2003-09/24/content_22814.htm (1419 words)

	Chinese History - Liao Dynasty (Khitan) é¼ literature, thought, philosophy, and the Khitan script ...
		This first script is called the Large Khitan Script and borrows many Chinese characters without changing their original appearance, while also other characters are derived from a Chinese character and are changed slightly, and a third group of characters has no Chinese origin or counterpart but was invented independently.
		But because the Khitan language is not related to the monosyllabic Chinese (one word - one syllable - one character) but belongs to the Altaic languages that are highly agglutinating (one word - many syllables) the Chinese logographic script does not provide an ideal writing system for Khitan.
		The Small Khitan script is consisting of syllabograms, but also of components that consist of a logographic part (a symbol) and a pure syllabic part (a sound).
	www.chinaknowledge.org /History/Song/liao-literature.html (1041 words)

	Kara-Khanid Khanate
		After the defeat of the Khitan dynasty by the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) in Northern China, the great Khitan mandarin Yelu Dashi escaped from China with a small band of Khitan soldiers, recruited warriors from Tangut, Tibetan, Qarluq, Kara-Khoja, Naiman areas and marched westward in search of asylum.
		Instead, the "Khitans" (most of them were actually Naimans, Tanguts and Qarluqs speaking the same Turkic language as the Kara-Khanids) retreated to the northern steppes and had the Kara-Khanids act as their tax-collectors and administrators on Muslim sedentary populations (the same practice was adopted by the Golden Horde on the Russian Steppes).
		In the early 13th century Kara Khitan ruler Kushlug, a sworn foe of Genghis Khan, was crushed by the advancing Mongol army along with his Kara-Khitan military state.
	www.1bx.com /en/Qarakhanate.htm (1161 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Khitan
		Recall that Khitan was an Altaic language, and so it was highly polysyllabic (in contrast to Chinese's monosyllabic structure), so often words are written with more than one sign.
		The Khitan state fell at 1125 CE, but the two scripts continued to be used until 1191.
		Eventually part of the Khitan system was adopted into the Jurchen script.
	www.ancientscripts.com /khitan.html (436 words)

	Korea - MSN Encarta
		The traditional founding dates for the Paekche and Silla dynasties are based on myth but taken seriously by many Koreans.
		By 668 Silla, in alliance with the Chinese Tang (T’ang) dynasty, had conquered first Paekche and then Koguryŏ, creating the first unified Korean state, Unified Silla, and ending what is known as the Three Kingdoms period.
		Peace was achieved in 1022, with Koryŏ regaining all the territory contested by the Liao dynasty.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557519/Korea.html (1143 words)

	Goryeo-Khitan Wars - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		After the fall of Goguryeo in 668 and the brief Chinese Occupation, Kingdom of Balhae, composed of Koreans and Mohe, was established and ruled Manchuria, including today's Russian Maritime Province.
		As all three of Balhae, Uyghur and Tang Dynasty weakened, the Tungusic race of Khitans emerged in the region what is now Inner Mongolia.
		Khitans initiated against Goryeo attacks in 983, in 985 and in 989.
	www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Goryeo-Khitan_Wars (381 words)

	Liao Dynasty -- Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China -- Research Into Origins Of Huns, Uygurs, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Khitan chieftain, Yelü Deguang, tried to establish himself as emperor of northern China and declared Liao Dynasty while he was occupying the capital of Posterior Jinn in AD 947.
		Posteriro Han Dynasty continued the pacification policy as to the Tanguts, and further seceded Jingzhou (Mizhi county of Shenxi) to Tangut's Li Yiyin in AD 949 and conferred the title of "zhong shu ling" (minister for central secretariat).
		Posteriro Han Dynasty continued the pacification policy as to the Tanguts, and further seceded Jingzhou (Mizhi county of Shenxi) to Li Yiyin in AD 949 and conferred the title of "zhong shu ling" (minister for central secretariat).
	www.republicanchina.org /liao.html (5981 words)

	infoKorea
		The Khitan Liao Dynasty in Manchuria increased pressure on both Sung China and Koryo from the north, but the newly formed state held on to its independence, strengthened its government and expanded its territory northward to the Yalu River.
		The nearly constant political infighting became a striking characteristic of Korean politics that lasted until the downfall of the Yi dynasty in the twentieth century.
		The Japanese forced the abdication of the King, ended the Yi Dynasty, and took control of Korea under the new regime of a military Governor-General.
	myhome.shinbiro.com /~mss1/history.html (4072 words)

	4. The Sungs And The Kins Page 5
		For some unknown reason the Niuche became dissatisfied with their Khitan allies, and about the year 1100 A.D. they had all drawn their forces together as an independent confederacy under the leadership of a great chief named Akouta.
		"The Khitans," he said, "had in the earlier days of their success taken the name of Pintiei, meaning the iron of Pinchow, but although that iron may be excellent, it is liable to rust and can be eaten away.
		With his death soon afterward the Khitan dynasty came to an end, after enjoying its power for two hundred years, but some members of this race escaped across the Gobi Desert, and founded the brief-lived dynasty of the Kara Khitay in Turkestan.
	www.web-books.com /classics/Nonfiction/History/China/ChinaC5P5.htm (875 words)

	The Sword and the Crown
		Koryo's relations with the advanced Song Chinese had always been cordial and mutually beneficial, a relationship that rested on the peaceful foundation of economic and cultural exchanges.
		The buildup of military pressure by both the Khitan Liao and Jurchen Jin however, prompted a delicate readjustment of Koryo-Song relations.
		In one swift thrust, the Jin dynasty erased the Khitan kingdom of Liao, annexed the entire northern half of China, and drove the Song court and its military forces south of the Yangtze River.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C05/E0502.htm (2253 words)

	Taoism 你知[道]吗? - The History Of Chinese Root - China
		It was the first dynasty to embrace the philosophy of Confucianism, which became the ideological underpinning of all regimes until the end of imperial China.
		As China was ruled by two independent dynasties, one in the south and the other in the north, this is called the era of Southern and Northern Dynasties ().
		Main Sui DynastyThe Sui Dynasty () managed to reunite the country in 589 after almost 300 years of disjunction.The unification is the second shortest dynasty in the history of China after Qin Dynasty, and during this time, millions laboured on the Grand Canal of China (), still the longest canal in the world to date.
	yeobt.multiply.com /reviews/item/8 (4311 words)

	Khitan-Liao (907-1125 AD) - DBA 114
		As early as the 4th century, the Khitan (Ch'itan) were known to the Chinese as a loose confederation of nomadic tribes dwelling in the grasslands east of Mongolia in the valley of the Hsi Liao river (i.e., modern Manchuria).
		A contingent of Khitan tribesmen, dubbed the Kara-Khitan (Qara-Kitai or the Black Khitan), fled west across the central steppes to settle south of Lake Balkhash, where they controlled the silk road and lived somewhat tenuously on the edge of expanding Islam until crushed and absorbed by Ghenghis Khan's Mongols.
		Historically, the Khitan ordo cavalry could/would dismount to fight as bow or blade armed troops as need dictated, although this capability is not reflected in the DBA 1.1 list.
	www.fanaticus.org /DBA/armies/dba114.html (1184 words)

	Jimmyboy’s Late Night Film Journal » Korean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Khitan are mounting a terror campaign to end the Balhae Dynasty by assassinating all those of noble blood thus ending the royal blood line.
		With no legitimate heir left the Khitan are free to inherit the kingdom as their own.
		Jeong-Hyeon is the last obstacle to the complete annexation of the Balhae Dynasty under Khitan rule and so a race between the two fractions begins to find the only remaining Prince.
	filmjournal.net /jimmyboy/category/korean (1317 words)

	Mongol Scripts
		Invented in 1269 by Phags Pa Lama for Khubilai Khan, this script was adopted for official documents in the Yuan dynasty.
		The former is a logographic script based on Chinese characters, and the latter, developed by a Khitan scholar named Diela, is a syllabic script influenced in part by Uighur with characters for each syllable combined into word groups.
		It continued to be used after the fall of the Tai Ch'ing dynasty in 1911.
	www.viahistoria.com /SilverHorde/research/MongolScripts.html (2659 words)

	Manchuria
		The Khitan empire was destroyed by the Juchen tribes, who proclaimed their own Jin dynasty in 1115, overrunning northern China (1126) and forcing the Song into a southern rump state, the Southern Song dynasty.
		The Jin dynasty was in turn destroyed in 1234 by the Mongols who by that time incorporated Dongbei and China into their own extensive possessions.
		The Manchu dynasty was known for its shamanism, opium and tigers.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Places/Place/325074 (319 words)

	Korean Coins
		Korean dynasties began minting their own coins at the time of the Koryo dynasty (918-1392).
		Choson t'ongbo were minted by the Choson dynasty from 1423 up until it changed the legend to Sangp'yong t'ongbo in 1633.
		Choson was the name of the kingdom under the Choson dynasty, and this coin was its basic currency for over two centuries.
	www.history.ucsb.edu /faculty/roberts/coins/Koreancoins.html (748 words)

	Sung Dynasty & Mongol Rule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The latter was symbolized by the growth of concubinage and the introduction of Foot-Binding.
		Later, beginning in 1127, all of North China was conquered by t he Jurchen, leaving the Sung in control of only a truncated southern regime, with its capital at Hangchow.
		With the peace that settled over Asia as a result of Mongol rule, access to China became relatively easy, and thus another age of cosmopolitanism and broad foreign contact, particularly with the West, was begun.
	www.bergen.org /AAST/Projects/ChinaHistory/SUNG.HTM (497 words)

	Khitans - Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China -- Research Into Origins Of Huns, Uygurs, Khitans, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In early Han Dynasty, Hunnic Chanyu Modok defeated the Donghu, and Donghu fled to Xianbei-shan and Wuhuan-shan Mountains in the east.
		Khitans were said to have been pressured into moving into northern China where they established the Khitan Dynasty in AD 907.
		Guo Wei, a general of Posterior Han Dynasty responsible for defeating Posterior Jinn, rebelled after his family were slaughtered in the capital; Guo later staged a change of dynasty by having his soldiers propose that he be the emperor of Posterior Zhou (AD 951-960).
	www.republicanchina.org /khitan.htm (9968 words)

	Indian, Chinese, & Japanese Emperors
		The Châlukya dynasty, residing at Badami, suffered a severe reverse when Pulakeshin II was killed in battle by Narasimha Varman I of Pallava, and Badami occupied.
		A ruler in the Chou Dynasty was a
		The fall of the Ch'in Dynasty soon thereafter was later seen as proof of the working of the Mandate of Heaven.
	www.friesian.com /sangoku.htm (12453 words)

	Wikinfo \| Manchuria
		The region is the original homeland of the Manchu rulers of China during the Ming and Qing (=Manchu) dynasties.
		To the south, the region was separated from China proper by the willow palisade, a ditch and embankment planted with willows intended to keep the Manchus out of China during the Ming dynasty and intended to keep Han Chinese out of Manchuria during the Qing dynasty.
		During the Song dynasty, the Khitan set up the Liao dynasty in Manchuria.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Manchuria (923 words)

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