List of Mongol states

This is a list of Mongol states. The Mongols founded many states such as the vast Mongol Empire and other states. The list of states is chronological but follows the development of different dynasties.

Pre-modern states

Name Years Area Map Capital
Khanates in the 10th–12th centuries
Khamag Mongol Khanate 900s–1206
Merkit Khanate XI–mid XII
Kerait Khanate −1203
Naiman Khanate −1204
Tatar Khanate VI—X/(IX – mid XII?)
Mongol Empire
Mongol Empire 1206–1368 24,000,000 km2[1] Avarga (1206–1235)
Karakorum (1235–1260)
Khanbaliq (1260–1368)
Yuan dynasty
Yuan dynasty 1271–1368 14,000,000 km2 (1310)[2] Khanbaliq
(Dadu, Beijing)
Golden Horde (Turco-Mongol)
Golden Horde 1240–1502 6,000,000 km2 (1310)[3] Sarai Batu
Great Horde 1466–1502
Chagatai Khanate (Turco-Mongol)
Chagatai Khanate 1225–1340s 3,500,000 km2 (1310)[3][2] Almaliq
Qarshi
Western Chagatai Khanate 1340s–1370
Moghulistan 1340–1462
Kara Del Khanate 1383–1513
Turpan Khanate 1487–1660?
Yarkent Khanate 1514–1705
Ilkhanate
Ilkhanate 1256–1335 3,750,000 km2
[3][2]
Maragha (1256–1265)
Tabriz (1265–1306)
Soltaniyeh (1306–1335)
Chobanids 1335–1357 Tabriz
Injuids 1335–1357 Shiraz (Till 1353)
Isfahan (1353–1357)
Jalayirid Sultanate 1335–1432 Baghdad (Till 1411)
Basra (1411–1432)
Arghun dynasty 1479?–1599?
Genghisid Northern Yuan dynasty
Northern Yuan
1368–1635 5,000,000 km2 (1550)[2] Shangdu (1368–1369)
Yingchang (1369–1370)
Karakorum (1371–1388)
Khalkha Khanates
(Northern Yuan subject by 1635)
late 16th century–1691 Tüsheet Khan, Zasagt Khan, Setsen Khan and Altan Khan of the Khalkha
Oirats – Non-Genghisid states
Four Oirat 1399–1634 1,000,000 km2
(15th – late 16th)
~1,600,000 km2
(early 17th century)
Dzungar Khanate 1634–1758 3,500,000–4,000,000 km2 Ghulja
Khoshut Khanate 1642?–1717 ~1,400,000 km2
Kalmyk Khanate 1630–1771
Timurid states (Persianate Turco-Mongol states)
Timurid Empire 1370–1507 4,400,000 km2 (1405)[4] Samarkand (1370–1405)
Herat (1405–1507)
Mughal Empire 1526–1857 4,000,000 km2 (1700) Agra (1526–1571)
Fatehpur Sikri (1571–1585)
Lahore (1585–1598)
Agra (1598–1648)
Shahjahanabad/Delhi (1648–1857)
Other states/Khanate
Khanate of Sibir 1468–1598 Chimgi-Tura/Qashliq

See also

References

  1. ^ Turchin, Peter; Adams, Jonathan M.; Hall, Thomas D. (December 2006). "East-West Orientation of Historical Empires". Journal of World-Systems Research. 12 (2): 222–223. ISSN 1076-156X. Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d Rein Taagepera (September 1997). "Expansion and Contraction Patterns of Large Polities: Context for Russia". International Studies Quarterly 41 (3): 475–504.
  3. ^ a b c Jonathan M. Adams, Thomas D. Hall and Peter Turchin (2006). East-West Orientation of Historical Empires.Journal of World-Systems Research (University of Connecticut). 12 (no. 2): 219–229.
  4. ^ Turchin, Peter; Adams, Jonathan M.; Hall, Thomas D. (2015). "East-West Orientation of Historical Empires and Modern States". Journal of World-Systems Research. 12 (2): 219. doi:10.5195/jwsr.2006.369. ISSN 1076-156X.Open access icon

Bibliography

Further reading

  • Weiers, Michael (ed.) (1986): Die Mongolen. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
  • Dughlát Muhammad Haidar, Norbert Elias, Edward Denison Ross – The Tarikh-i-rashidi
  • Henry Hoyle Howorth-History of the Mongols
  • Herbert Franke, Denis Twitchett, John King Fairbank -The Cambridge History of China: Alien regimes and border states, 907–1368
  • William Bayne Fisher, Peter Jackson, Laurence Lockhart, J. A. Boyle -The Cambridge history of Iran, 5
  • Konstantin Nikolaevich Maksimov – Kalmykia in Russia's past and present national policies and administrative system