page_title: Dzungar Khanate
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Dzungar Khanate / History
caption_attribution_description: 中文: 明、后金、蒙古及卫拉特对峙示意图，1616年(萬曆四十四年，天命元年) English: Emipres of Ming, Jurchen (Later Jin), Mongol, Oirat, Upper Mongols (Kokonur, Qinghai), Chagatai Khanate (Yarkent Khanate), Turfan circa 1616
context_page_description: The Dzungar Khanate, also written as the Zunghar Khanate, was an Inner Asian khanate of Oirat Mongol origin. At its greatest extent, it covered an area from southern Siberia in the north to present-day Kyrgyzstan in the south, and from the Great Wall of China in the east to present-day Kazakhstan in the west. The core of the Dzungar Khanate is today part of northern Xinjiang, also called Dzungaria.
  About 1620 the western Mongols, known as the Oirats, united in Dzungaria. In 1678, Galdan received from the Dalai Lama the title of Boshogtu Khan, making the Dzungars the leading tribe within the Oirats. The Dzungar rulers used the title of Khong Tayiji, which translates into English as "crown prince". Between 1680 and 1688, the Dzungars conquered the Tarim Basin, which is now southern Xinjiang, and defeated the Khalkha Mongols to the east. In 1696, Galdan was defeated by the Qing dynasty and lost Outer Mongolia. In 1717 the Dzungars conquered Tibet, but were driven out a year later by the Qing. In 1755, the Manchus took advantage of a Dzungar civil war to conquer Dzungaria and destroyed the Dzungars as a people.
caption: The Oirats in 1616
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