Khitans

The Khitans were the first known group to have spoken a Mon­golian language.

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The Khitans were a Mongolian people living in southern Manchuria.

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She vanquished the Tibetans and a new Tartar race known as the Khitans, who appeared on the northern borders of Shensi.

China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890

If the Qarakhanids were to attack the Qocho realm at nearby Kucha, for example, the Khitans would undoubtedly be drawn into the war.

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Although the Khitan nobility that occupied Han Chinese territory became largely Sinicized, the Khitans outside of Han China kept their own customs and cultural identity.

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The Khitans followed a blend of the Han Chinese and Korean traditions of Buddhism together with their native form of shamanism.

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For the latter to launch their own attack on the Yellow Yugurs and have to fight the Khitans as well would require an unsustainable line of supply across the southern Tarim desert waste.

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Since the Khitans had been familiar with Han Chinese Buddhism for centuries before declaring their dynasty and also because the most extensive Buddhist literature was available in the Chinese language, Han civilization soon overshadowed Uighur elements as the main foreign influence on Khitan society.

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Consequently, the Tanguts continued hostile relations with both the Han Chinese and the ever-menacing Khitans to the north.

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This was five years after the Khitans had adopted the Uighur script as their second writing system and, thus, was the period when Uighur cultural influence on the Khitans was reaching its height.

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