 thumb|xiongnu   the xiongnu or hsiung-nu (mongolian: Ð¥Ò¯Ð½Ð½Ò¯; ; old chinese reconstructed ipa: qÊ°oÅ naË) were an ancient nomadic people who formed a state or confederation centered on current mongolia. the xiongnu was the first state of nomadic peoples. most of the information on the xiongnu comes from chinese sources and what little is known of their titles and names comes from chinese transliterations of their language. the identity of the ethnic core of xiongnu has been a subject of varied hypotheses, because only a few words, mainly titles and personal names, were preserved in the chinese sources. proposals by scholars include turkic,gedikli, yusuf (2009). hun tÃ¼rkÃ§esi Ãzerine araÅtÄ±rma ve Ä°ncelemeler - 8: hun tÃ¼rklerindeki hu-chie ~ wu-chie, Ä°-châÃ¼ jung, ta-li jung kavim adlarÄ±nÄ±n etimolojisi ve Ãok Ãnemli ÃÃ§ sonuÃ§; tÃ¼rk dilinin ve tÃ¼rk tarihinin mÃ 659 yÄ±lÄ±nda baÅladÄ±ÄÄ±nÄ±n belgelenmesi. yom tÃ¼rk dÃ¼nyasÄ± kÃ¼ltÃ¼r dergisi, bahar 2009 mongolic,Ð.Ð¨Ð°Ð±Ð°Ð»Ð¾Ð² "ÐÐ± ÑÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ Ð¿ÑÐ¸Ð½Ð°Ð´Ð»ÐµÐ¶Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÐ¸ ÑÑÐ½Ð½Ñ". 2009 (russian) yeniseian,adas 2001: 88beckwith 2009: 404-405, nn. 51-52. tocharian, iranian,harmatta 1999: 488jankowski 2006: 27 and uralic.di cosmo, 2004, pg 166 they also possibly practiced tengriism.yuri pines, the everlasting empire: the political culture of ancient china and its imperial legacy, princeton university press, 2012, p.37. isbn 1-4008-4227-1, 9781400842278.john man, attila: the barbarian king who challenged rome, bantam, 2005, p.62. university of michigan. isbn 0-593-05291-9, 9780593052914. the name xiongnu may be cognate to the name huns, but the evidence for this is controversial.vaissiÃ¨re 2006 chinese sources from the 3rd century bc report them as having created an empire under modu chanyu, the supreme leader after 209&nbsp;bc.di cosmo 2004: 186 this empire (209 bc â 93 ad) stretched beyond the borders of modern-day mongolia. after defeating the previously dominant yuezhi in the 2nd century bc, xiongnu became a dom
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