Qurïqan

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This paper is an attempt of in-depth study and reconstruction of different stages in the history of the Quriqans, primarily in connection with the issues of Buryat ethnogenesis. A broad context of the sources used in this study enables us to clarify some aspects of this entity’s settlement geography, trace the transformation of its political status in the historical dynamics of Inner Asia, and determine the degree to which the Quriqans contributed to Buryat ethnogenesis. The authors support the theory of unity of the ethnonym Quriqan known from the Old Turkic runic monuments and the ethnonym Gǔligan 骨利幹 known from the Chinese sources. Undoubtedly, Quriqan and Gǔligan 骨利幹 represent the same ethnonym in different languages.