LC control no. | sh2011000877 |
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Topical heading | Merkity (Mongolian people) |
Variant(s) | Mergedy (Mongolian people) |
See also | Ethnology--Russia (Federation) Mongols |
Found in | Work cat.: 2010547489: Tivanenko, A.V. Poiski utrachennogo t︠s︡arstva, 2010. Russian Wikipedia, Feb. 24, 2011 (Merkity: also Mergedy, prob. from Mong. merged "accurate, clever", a Mongolian people coming into the empire of Genghis Khan in the XIII c. They lived in the Zabaikalʹe, in the territory of contemporary Buriatia. Some say they are the ancestors of the modern Buriats) |