The Xiongnu (Chinese: 匈奴, [ɕjʊ́ŋ.nǔ]) were a tribal confederation of nomadic peoples who, according to ancient Chinese sources, inhabited the eastern...

The Han–Xiongnu Wars, also known as the Sino–Xiongnu War, was a series of military conflicts fought over two centuries (from 133 BC to 89 AD) between the...

Xiongnu, also referred to as Xiong-nu or Hsiung-nu, is the language(s) presumed to be spoken by the Xiongnu, a people and confederation which existed...

c. 174 BCE) was the son of Touman and the founder of the empire of the Xiongnu. He came to power by ordering his men to kill his father in 209 BCE. Modu...

campaigns to quell the Xiongnu. The Xiongnu were eventually defeated and forced to accept a status as Han vassals, and the Xiongnu confederation fragmented...

during the 1st millennium BC. After a major defeat at the hands of the Xiongnu in 176 BC, the Yuezhi split into two groups migrating in different directions:...

CE. The title was most famously used by the ruling Luandi clan of the Xiongnu during the Qin dynasty (221–206 BCE) and Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE)....

increased to face the military challenges presented by the Xiongnu during the Han–Xiongnu Wars and other opponents during the Southward expansion of the...

categorized as the Five Barbarians were: Xiongnu Jie Xianbei Qiang Di Of these five tribal ethnic groups, the Xiongnu and Xianbei were nomadic peoples from...

Xiongnu. By that point, Xiongnu had a civil war and divided themselves into two side—with North Xiongnu ruled by Chanyu Punu (蒲奴) and South Xiongnu ruled...

culture JIN YUEZHI Subeshi Wusun SELEUCID EMPIRE MAURYA EMPIRE HAN DYNASTY XIONGNU PTOLE- MIES MEROË Scythians Sarma- tians The Wusun (/ˈwuːsʌn/ WOO-sun)...

of the Emperor Wu of Han. Wars were mainly fought against the nomadic Xiongnu confederation based in the Mongolian Plateau, but also against other states...

a timeline of the Xiongnu, a nomadic people that dominated the ancient eastern Eurasian steppes from 209 BC to 89 AD. The Xiongnu settled down in northern...

Zhang 2023: "In contrast, the early West Xiongnu (earlyXiongnu_west) and late Sarmatian Xiongnu (lateXiongnu_Sarmatian) derived ancestry mainly from West...

trade disputes compounded by the extended geopolitics surrounding the Han-Xiongnu War, resulting in two Han expeditions that eventuated in a Han victory...

of the Mongols were the Xiongnu, although it is not yet known whether they were proto-Mongols.[citation needed] The Xiongnu were a group of nomads who...

de Guignes became the first to propose a link between the Huns and the Xiongnu people, who lived in northern China from the 3rd century BC to the late...

military conflict between Han China and the Xiongnu in 200 BC. In an alternate account, Grousset says that the Xiongnu invaded Chinese Shanxi and besieged Taiyuan...

with the Xiongnu against the Hàn Empire, he defected to the Xiongnu and was eventually killed in a battle between the Hàn Empire and Xiongnu in 196 BC...

a campaign into the Gobi Desert of what is now Mongolia to defeat the Xiongnu nomadic confederation, winning decisive victories such as the Battle of...

previous year, the Xiongnu invade the province of Dai, kill its governor, Gong You, and capture over 1000 of its inhabitants. Autumn: The Xiongnu cross into Yanmen...

first proposed that the Huns and the Iranian Huns were identical to the Xiongnu. The thesis was then popularized by Edward Gibbon. Since that time scholars...

(Chinese: 稽鬻), was a Chanyu of the Xiongnu Empire who succeeded his father Modu Chanyu in 174 BCE. Under his reign, the Xiongnu Empire continued to expand against...

prevented by the hostile Xiongnu.[citation needed] The Han court dispatched Zhang Qian, a military officer who was familiar with the Xiongnu, to the Western Regions...

SELEU- CIDS PTOLE- MIES PARTHIAN EMPIRE SUNGAS SATAVA- HANAS HAN DYNASTY XIONGNU The Dingling were an ancient people who appear in Chinese historiography...

The Zhao–Xiongnu War (Chinese: 趙破匈奴之戰) was a war that took place between the state of Zhao and the Xiongnu confederation in 265 BC during the Warring...

act of heresy and treason. Wei Zifu is made the new Empress. Spring: the Xiongnu raid Shanggu, killing officials and other inhabitants. Autumn: Emperor...

engaging in the struggle between the Han and Xiongnu, culminating in the Xianbei replacing the Xiongnu on the Mongolian Plateau in 93 AD. In the mid-2nd...

CE, Wang Mang issued a list of regulations to the ally-vassal Xiongnu, which the Xiongnu chanyu Nangzhiyasi (囊知牙斯—later shortened to Zhi in response to...

against the Xiongnu tribes in the Ordos region, and establish a frontier region at the loop of the Yellow River. Believing that the Xiongnu were a possible...