Chahar (Mongols)

The Chahar (German pronunciation: Tschahar or Tschachar ) ( Chinese : 察哈尔) are a Mongolian tribe who speak the Mongolian dialect Chahar .

The Chahar inhabited at the time of Kublai Khan , as his personal - according to other sources: from his brother Mangu Khan on One suitable - fief , the region around Jingzhao (now Xi'an ). After the fall of Mongol rule in China (1368), they moved from Shaanxi to southeastern Mongolia , where they set up a Tümen / Tumen (military unit with 10,000 men) under Dayan Khan and his successors.

Under pressure from Altan Khan , the Chahar moved east to the Liao River under the leadership of Darayisun in the mid-16th century . At the beginning of the 17th century, Ligdan Khan led a campaign to the west due to pressure from the Manchu , but died on his way to Tibet in the Gansu province , whereupon his son surrendered to the Manchu.

The ruling family of the Chahar had good relations with the ruling family of the Manchu until about 1663, until Makata Gege , the daughter of the Manchu ruler Huang Taiji and wife of the Chahar prince, died in 1663. When the three feudal princes rebelled in 1674, the ruler of the Chahar rose against the Qing dynasty , but was soon defeated, whereupon the Chahar were reintegrated into the system of the Eight Banners and were now directly subordinate to the emperor.

See also

• Chahar , a Chinese province between 1912 and 1936.