Qutulun: the warrior princess of Mongol central Asia

Michal Biran

Qutulun: the warrior princess of Mongol central Asia

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From the Greek Amazons to China’s Hua Mulan and its Disney adaptation, women warriors have caught the imagination of people across time, space and cultures.¹ In the Mongol context, the prowess of the Mongol women, who not only played a pivotal role in the politics and economy of the empire, far greater than that of their sedentary counterparts, but would also ride horses, hunt, and occasionally even fight, greatly impressed their sedentary subjects and neighbors.²The most renowned Mongol female warrior, perhaps the only one who truly deserved the title of Mongol general, is Qutulun (d. ca. 1307). A great-great

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia
Subtitle of host publication	generals, merchants, intellectuals
Editors	Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack, Francesca Fiaschetti
Place of Publication	Oakland, California
Publisher	University of California Press
Pages	64-82
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	9780520970786, 0520970780
ISBN (Print)	9780520298743, 0520298748, 9780520298750, 0520298756
State	Published - 2020

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Хутулун: Төв Ази Монголын дайчин гүнж
Биран, М. & Энхсаруул, Л. (Translator), Dec 2023, In: Чингис Хааны өв, соёл судлал. 2, 1-9, p. 183-203 21 p.
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쿠툴룬: 몽골 치하 중앙아시아의 전사 공주
Translated title of the contribution: Qutulun: the warrior princess of Mongol central Asia비란미할, 브락요나탄, 피아셰티프란체스카 & 이재황 (Translator), 2021, 몽골 제국, 실크로드의 개척자들: 장군, 상인, 지식인. 비란미할, 브락요나탄 & 피아셰티프란체스카 (eds.). 서울: 책과함께, p. 107-135 29 p.
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Хутулун: Төв Ази Монголын дайчин гүнж

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