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Architecture of Mongolia. Early-20th-century yurt-shaped temple. Architectural generations: yurt, temple and skyscraper. Model of the Maitreya Temple. The architecture of Mongolia is largely based on traditional dwellings, such as the yurt (Mongolian: гэр, ger) and the tent. During the 16th and 17th centuries, lamaseries were built ...
Yurt wagon or Ger tereg (Mongolian: ᠭᠡᠷ ᠲᠡᠷᠭᠡ) is a traditional mobile dwelling of the Mongolic people, in which a yurt is placed on a large cart usually pulled by oxen. [1] This type of habitat was mainly used by the Mongol Khans, at least between the 13th and 16th centuries. [2] William of Rubruck (1215-1295) describes them in ...
A traditional Kyrgyz yurt. A Karakalpak bentwood type "yourte" in Khwarezm (or Karakalpakstan), Uzbekistan. Turkmen woman at the entrance to a yurt in Turkestan; 1913 picture by Prokudin-Gorsky. A yurt (from the Turkic languages) or ger (Mongolian) is a portable, round tent covered and insulated with skins or felt and traditionally used as a ...
Tuvans, Tofalar, Soyots, several other Turkic peoples, Mongols. The Dukha, Dukhans or Duhalar (Mongolian: Цаатан, Tsaatan, духа́, Dukha) are a small Turkic community of semi-nomadic reindeer herders living in a sum of Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia called Tsagaannuur. The Dukha are divided into two groups: those from northeast Tuva ...
The culture of Mongolia has been shaped by the country's nomadic tradition and its position at the crossroads of various empires and civilizations. Mongolian culture is influenced by the cultures of the Mongolic, Turkic, and East Asian peoples, as well as by the country's geography and its history of political and economic interactions with ...
Ger district. A Ger district (Mongolian: гэр хороолол, Ger khoroolol) is a form of residential district in Mongolian settlements. They usually consist of parcels with one or more detached traditional mobile dwellings or gers (hence the name), surrounded by two-metre high wooden fences. In other countries, gers are known as yurts.
The main one was the single "Altai Faith" (Altay: Алтай јаҥ, romanized: Altai jang)—a traditional ethnic religion in the form of a synthesis of Burkhanism with the remnants of Altai shamanism, Mongolian and Tibetan Buddhism, and other tribal beliefs and customs. [39] [40]
Society of the Mongol Empire. The expansion of the Mongol Empire over time. Mongols living within the Mongol Empire (1206–1368) maintained their own culture, not necessarily reflective of the majority population of the historical Mongolian empire, as most of the non-Mongol peoples inside it were allowed to continue their own social customs.