| LC control no. | sh2012000373 |
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| Topical heading | Chahar Mongols |
| Variant(s) | Čaqar Mongols Chakhar Mongols Qahar Mongols Tsakhar Mongols |
| See also | Ethnology--China Ethnology--Mongolia Mongols |
| Found in | Work cat: Caqar-un soyul teu̇ke-yin sijir qaġudasu, 2008 (Chahar Mongols; chiefly found today in Xilin Gol and Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia) Ethnologue, c2000: p. 417 (Mongolian, Peripheral; dialect: Chahar (Chahaer, Chakhar, Qahar); 299,000 in China) Encycl. of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire, c2004 (Chakhar (Chahar, Tsakhar, Caqar, Qahar); the appanage of the last independent Mongol emperors in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Chakhar Mongols were tightly controlled by China's Qing dynasty) Wikipedia, Jan. 27, 2012 (Chahar Mongols; The Chahar (Mongol: Цахар) is a subgroup of Mongol people that speak the Chahar dialect and predominantly live in southeastern Inner Mongolia; after the fall of the Zunghar Khanate in c. 1758, the Qing authority resettled part of the Chahars to the Ili Region of Xinjiang. In 1911 a group of Chahars fled Xinjiang to Mongolia and contributed to the Mongolian revolution of 1921. They are known as the Selenge Tsakhar since they settled in Selenge.) |
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