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In Inner Mongolia, China, the descendants of the Kereh tribe were part of today's Chahar, Ordos, and Ba'a neighboring tribes......Arbuckreh was one of the two branches of the Kazakh Kereh tribe and migrated to the western part of the Qing Empire at the end of the 18th century. Today, most of the Kazakh tribes in China are ......descendants of the Arbuckreh clans
The Kereh, one of the five major Mongol or Turkic tribal confederations in the Altai-Sayan region in the 12th century, who converted to Nestorianism in the early 11th century, is one of the possible ** legends of John, the chief priest of Europe.
It is not clear whether the ancestors of the Kereh should be classified as Turkic or Mongol. The names and titles of the early Kareh chiefs indicate that they spoke Turkic, but with the alliances, intermarriages, and mergers of various tribes, the Kereh may have completed Turkic-Mongol integration much earlier, and the names of all the Kereh tribes have meanings in Mongolian.
Before being defeated by the Mongols and joining the Mongol army, the Kerebe were an alliance of several tribal groups. Apparently, like many tribal confederations of the time, they consisted of Mongolian- and Turkic-speaking tribes. The Kerebe people are one of the origins of many modern and Turkic peoples.
Russian scholars classify the Kereh, along with the Nai barbarians, as the ancestors of the Yenisei Kyrgyz, believing that they were part of the population of the Yakhanate.
In the 12th century, the Kreh khanate played an important role in the steppes and went to war with the Jurchen Jin dynasty, which had been established in northern China. Some Europeans described King Kereb Khan as "King John the Priesthood", and Genghis Khan called him "Father Khan".
Genghis Khan himself married the great niece of Wang Khan. A part of the Kereh people submitted to Temujin's rule, but out of distrust, Temujin scattered them among other Mongol tribes.
After the rise of the Mongol Empire, some of the Kerehs who fled the Mongols later became an integral part of some Turkic peoples, especially the Kazakhs. Others joined the Mongol Empire and became part of the modern Mongol nation.
At the same time, some of the princesses became the wives of the Mongol khans. In addition, some Mongol ruling dynasties, such as the Kalmyk-Turgots, can also be traced back to the Kereh lineage.
With the Mongol expedition to the west led by Batu Khan and Möngke Khan, the Kereh reached Europe. The western expeditionary army led by Haidu in the 1270s may have consisted mainly of the Kereh and the Nabarbarians.
From the 1380s onwards, Nestorianism in the Mongol region gradually declined and disappeared, partly due to Islamization under Timur and partly due to the conquest of the Ming Empire in China.
At the end of the 14th century, remnants of the Kereh lived along the Irtysh River, and this part of the Kereh was eventually dispersed during the war between the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and Warat that took place in the 1420s.
Among the Mongol people, the descendants of the Kereh inhabit various provinces of Mongolia in the form of Khalkha Mongol clans. In Inner Mongolia, China, the descendants of the Kereh tribe were part of today's Chahar, Ordos, and Ba'a neighboring tribes......
Among the Turkic peoples, the descendants of the Kereh merged into the Kazakhs. The Kereh left their tribal name to one of the Kazakh tribes, part of the Lesser Yuz.
In addition, Arbuckreh ( is one of the two branches of the Kazakh Kereh tribe.
They lived in the northeastern part of the Kazakh Khanate until the end of the 18th century, when they migrated to the western part of the Qing Empire. Today, the Kazakh tribe of China is mostly descended from the Arbuckreh clan.
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