Dai Khitai (Hazara tribe)

The Dai Khitai are a tribe of Hazara, found in Afghanistan. The Dai Khitai are often listed among the eight overarching Hazara tribes, though not among the five "original tribes".[1] However, other resources list them as being among the "real" Hazara tribes, "the Dai groups",[2] or as one of the "original"[3] tribes.

Regardless of their position among the major groupings, the Dai Khitai are often seen as coming together with the Dai Chopan tribe to form the larger Uruzgani Hazara tribe.[4][5] The name Khitai likely originates from the Khitan Mongols. The Khitans were the Central Asian people, whose Liao dynasty in Southern Mongolia fell to a Jurchen invasion by the Jin Empire. Fleeing the Jurchen people, nomadic Khitans escaped west, settling in modern Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan founding the Kara-Khitan Khanate.

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  1. ↑ Barbara Anne Brower; Barbara Rose Johnston (2007). Disappearing peoples?: indigenous groups and ethnic minorities in South and Central Asia. Left Coast Press. pp. 157–. ISBN 9781598741216. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
  2. ↑ Franz Schurmann (1962). The Mongols of Afghanistan: an ethnography of the Moghôls and related peoples of Afghanistan. Mouton. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
  3. ↑ University of New Mexico; Laboratory of Anthropology (Museum of New Mexico). (1951). Journal of anthropological research. University of New Mexico. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
  4. ↑ Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (1958). Viking fund publications in anthropology. Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
  5. ↑ Robert L. Canfield (27 October 2010). Ethnicity, Authority and Power in Central Asia: New Games Great and Small. Taylor & Francis US. pp. 131–. ISBN 9780415780698. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
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