Location of the Dzungarian Gate Pass and the Dzungaria region. Credit: Phirosiberia / Wikimedia Commons The Hyperboreans lived beyond Boreas, the north wind, and precisely the fierce and almost ...

This article series explores 12 distinct “regions” within China: six “core” regions long dominated by the majority Han ethnic group and six “periphery” regions home to many of China ...

In 1771 the oppression of Tsarist administration forced the larger part of Kalmyk's approximately 170,000-200,000 people to migrate to Dzungaria. Ubashi Khan, the great-grandson of Ayuka Khan and ...