Sentence examples for mongols from inspiring English sources

Parts of both cities have become a no-go zone for Iraq's beleaguered troops, who have been battered and humiliated by Isis, a group of marauders unparalleled in Mesopotamia since the time of the Mongols.

Mongols in Inner Mongolia see little attraction in unification with the far poorer Mongolian republic to the north (and few in the republic show much interest in expanding their territory southward).

Even if most Mongols are not yearning for independence, Mr Hu cannot relax.In Xilinhot eight years ago the authorities removed a monument to Communist heroes which stood atop a hill in the city, and reinstated 13 Mongolian ovoo, or stone mounds, that are used in traditional worship (the original ovoo had been flattened by Mao's Red Guards).

During the night, a lorry driven by an ethnic Han Chinese driver hit one of the herders, called Mergen (single-named, like many Mongols).

The site combines pictures of the objects in the exhibit ranging from saddles to religious statuary with text explaining the day-to-day lives of nomadic Mongols.

Unlike Tibetans or Uighurs in Xinjiang, many Mongols have little if any mastery of their ancestral language.Chinese leaders must therefore have been shocked when protests broke out in a handful of Inner Mongolian towns over the course of several days in late May.

Its ethnic Mongols were far less rebellious than the unruly Tibetans upon whom Hu Jintao imposed martial law in 1989 when he was Tibet's party chief (Hu Chunhua, who is described in official hagiographies as a fluent Tibetan speaker, was there at the time, too, as a junior official).

But China asserts no claim, and you could go back to Kublai Khan to argue that China was in fact part of Mongolia.Twice as many Mongols live in China (5.8m) as in Mongolia (2.8m)—with some 4m of them in the Chinese border region of Inner Mongolia, where they make up about one in six of the population.

More ethnic Mongols live in the Chinese province than over the border in independent Mongolia.

To the east the kingdoms of Walachia and Moldavia did not emerge until the 14th century; their preoccupations were less with the Turks than with the Hungarians and the Mongols.

Stalin's secret service, the NKVD, forced Sergei Eisenstein to cut accurate scenes of his Russian hero allying with the Mongols from Alexander Nevsky (1938).