Keraites
Sign in to saveThe Keraites (also Kerait, Kereit, Khereid, Kazakh: керейт; Kyrgyz: керей; Mongolian: , Хэрэйд; Nogai: Кереит; Uzbek: Kerait; Chinese: 克烈, Persian: کرایت) were one of the five dominant Turco-Mongol tribal confederations (khanates) in the Altai-Sayan region during the 12th century. They had converted to the Church of the East in the early 11th century and are one of the possible sources of the European Prester John legend.
Key facts
- Country.native_name
- (Khereid)
- Country.conventional_long_name
- Keraites
- Country.common_name
- Keraites
- Country.era
- Middle Ages
- Country.status
- Subjects to: Liao dynasty,Qara Khitai (Western Liao),Genghisids
- Country.today
- Various Mongolic (Khalkha, Buryats, Kalmyks and Oirats) and Turkic speaking (Kazakhs, Kyrgyzs, Nogais, Uzbeks and Bashkirs).
- Country.year_start
- 11th century
- Country.year_end
- 13th century
- Country.event1
- conversion to Christianity
- Country.event_end
- absorbed into the Mongol Empire.
- Country.p1
- Zubu
- Country.p2
- Kara-Khanid Khanate
- Country.s1
- Mongol Empire
- Country.image_map
- Mongol Empire c.1207.png
- Country.religion
- Church of the East
- Country.government_type
- Khanate
- Country.title_leader
- Khan
- Country.leader1
- Markus Buyruk Khan
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Origins
- Khanate
- Mongol Empire and dispersal
- Clans
- Church of the East Christianity
- Conversion account
- Legacy
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Sources
The Keraites (also Kerait, Kereit, Khereid, Kazakh: керейт; Kyrgyz: керей; Mongolian: , Хэрэйд; Nogai: Кереит; Uzbek: Kerait; Chinese: 克烈, Persian: کرایت) were one of the five dominant Turco-Mongol tribal confederations (khanates) in the Altai-Sayan region during the 12th century. They had converted to the Church of the East in the early 11th century and are one of the possible sources of the European Prester John legend.
Their original territory was expansive, corresponding to much of what is now Mongolia. Vasily Bartold (1913) located them along the upper Onon and Kherlen rivers and along the Tuul river. They were defeated by Genghis Khan in 1203 and became influential in the rise of the Mongol Empire, and were gradually absorbed into the succeeding Mongol khanates during the 13th century.