Study on the Pastoral Nomads' Central Plain of Northern and Southern Mongolia : From the viewpoints of Turkic Inscriptions and Archaeological Sites.

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25770257
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: History of Asia and Africa
• Research Institution: Aoyama Gakuin Women's Junior College (2016); Osaka University (2013-2015)
• Principal Investigator: Suzuki Kosetsu 青山学院女子短期大学, 現代教養学科, 助教 (10609374)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 突厥 / モンゴル / 突厥碑文 / 遊牧民 / トルコ / 唐 / ゴビ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study project analyzed the pastoral nomadic people (especially turkic nomads) lived on the central Eurasia from the 6th century to the 9th century. The author researched historical sites and turkic inscriptions located in Mongolia plateau and concluded that there ware 2 pastoral nomads' central plain at northern and southern Mongolia. That is, northern one is the pastoral nomads' central plain at Hangai Mountains and southern one is at Yinsan Mountains. Therefore this study project found that the Gobi area had great influence on not only turkic empires stemmed from these 2 pastoral nomads' central plain but also the Chinese empires.

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