Empire1124 – 1218 · 94 years

Kara-Khitai

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Qara Khitai, or Kara Khitai, also known as the Western Liao, officially the Great Liao, was a dynastic regime based in Central Asia ruled by the Yelü clan of the Khitan people. Being a rump state of the Khitan-led Liao dynasty, Western Liao was culturally Sinicized to a large extent, especially among the elites consisting of Liao refugees.

Wikipedia: Qara Khitai·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Reconstructed borders

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps
SNAPSHOT1200
POLITY TYPEstate

Also during this period

No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.

Mongol Conquests1206–1368
World-changing · 40M dead
Mongol Conquest of China1205–79
World-changing · 20M dead
Mongol Conquest of Song Dynasty1205–79
World-changing · 15M dead
Reconquista722 CE–1492
World-changing · 1.0M dead
Song-Jin Wars1125–1234
Major conflict · 2.0M dead
Byzantine-Arab Wars633 CE–1453
Major conflict · 1.0M dead

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1124 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Kara-Khitai (1124 – 1218). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/asia-kara-khitai · Sources & methodology