#mongol

[folkfashion]

Mongol woman's deel, Mongolia, by Ayan Travel

[safije]

Children in Inner Mongolia, China 1980s

[naareblogs]

Today is speak your language day!!! :D Let's try the poll again!

Mi lenguaje es el español :]

This picture belongs to @hummingfluff

Which is your language?

Romance (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Catalan, etc)

Germanic (English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, etc)

Slavic (Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Czech, etc)

Iranian (Persian, Pastho, Kurdish, etc)

Indic North, Northwest, Easter (Bengali, Nepali, Punjabi, Seraiki, etc)

Indic central southern and east central (Hindu, Urdu, Marathi, Bagheli, etc)

Uralic (Finish, Hungarian, Estonian, etc)

Asian aislated/ almost aislated (Japanese, Korean, Burushaki, etc)

Asian altaic, Austronesian, Austroasian (Turkish, Mongol, Javanese, Vietnamese)

Asian sino-tibetan, tai, semitic (Mandarin, Thai, Hebrew, Arabic, Tibetan, etc)

My language is a mix of different languages

I have more than one language as my language

Voting ended onMay 14, 2025

[along-the-silkroad]

Frieze Tile with Two Hunters, Iran, Ilkhanid, second half 13th century. MET (ID: 10.9.1) This frieze tile is molded in low relief and painted in luster over an opaque white ground with accents of turquoise and cobalt blue. The background presents a lush landscape of vegetal motifs and birds in flight, while in the foreground two horsemen stab a deer with their swords. The figures wear luxurious clothes, and the artist has taken care to depict different textile patterns on each. Luster tiles of similar quality, color scheme, and motifs decorated the palace at Takht-i Sulaymän, an important Ilkhanid imperial residence. (MET)

[songs-of-the-east]

Kalmyk dancers from the Soviet-era ensemble Tulpan in the city of Elista, Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR

The state folk ensemble Tulpan was formed in 1937 in order to promote traditional Kalmyk music during the Soviet Unions - Korenizatsiia ("Indigenization") policy time period. During this point of Soviet history, the state sought to eliminate Russian political and cultural domination in regions where ethnic Russians were not a majority, in order to promote representation of Indigenous groups, and counter what they deemed as ethnic-Russian chauvinism and counter-revolutionary ("bourgeoise") nationalism among ethnic minorities. This policy was enacted in Ukraine, Central Asia, Moldova, the Baltics, southern Caucasus, and within Russia itself; including Kalmykia.

Korenizatsiia led to the establishment of the Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within Russia for the Kalmyk people, who are a Mongolic ethnic group from the steppes of European Russia.

During the interwar period, when Stalin was the leader of the USSR, Korenizatsiia was mostly abandoned. When the Nazis invaded Russia, including Kalmykia, around 5000 Kalmyks ended up collaborating with them in the Nazi-affiliated Kalmykian Cavalry Corps. This led to Kalmyks being deemed as enemies of the people, and to their collective deportation to Siberia and abolishment of the Kalmyk ASSR, despite the fact that 23k Kalmyks fought for the Red Army against the Nazis. In the 1950's Kalmyks were allowed to return to Kalmykia and the Kalmyk ASSR was reestablished.

[hinducosmos]

Ushnishavijaya - Buddha of longevity 18th/19th century. Mongolia, Zanabazar Style. A Rare Gilt-copper Alloy Figure of Ushnishavijaya. (via Sotheby's)

[goraehanuel]

refs for my north asian butch ocs

[secondwheel]

Chinggis Khan / Siege of Caffa in 1346–1347