Kalmyks
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Kalmyks are the only Mongolic-speaking people living in Europe, residing in the easternmost part of the European Plain.
Kalmyks in the late 19th century. Picture taken in the Salsky Raion of the Don Host Oblast.
Kalmyks
Kalmyk dancers
Kalmyk depicted by Struys Jan Janszoon (1681)
Keraites
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The Keraites were one of the five dominant Mongol or Turkic tribal confederations (khanates) in the Altai-Sayan region during the 12th century. They had converted to the Church of the East (Nestorianism) in the early 11th century and are one of the possible sources of the European Prester John legend.
Depiction of Wang Khan as "Prester John" in Le Livre des Merveilles, 15th century.
The Ilkhanate ruler Hulagu Khan with his Keraite Christian wife Doquz Khatun.