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Merkity (Mongolian people)

LC control no.sh2011000877
Topical headingMerkity (Mongolian people)
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Variant(s)Mergedy (Mongolian people)
See alsoEthnology--Russia (Federation)
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Mongols
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Found inWork 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)