Northern Yuan

Northern Yuan 北元 ᠳᠠᠢ ᠦᠨ Dayan 大元 ("Great Yuan") ᠳᠥᠴᠢᠨ ᠳᠥᠷᠪᠡᠨ ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ döčin dörben mongγol ulus[1] ("Forty-four Mongol State")
1368–1635
Imperial Seal of the Mongols
The Northern Yuan in the 15th century
Capital	Shangdu (1368–1369) Yingchang (1369–1370) Karakorum (1371–1388)
Common languages	Mongolian, Chinese, Jurchen[2]
Religion	Tengrism, Buddhism, Islam
Government	Monarchy
Khagan
• 1368–1370	Ukhaghatu Khan Toghon Temür (first)
• 1370–1378	Biligtü Khan Ayushiridara
• 1378–1388	Uskhal Khan Tögüs Temür
• 1454-1455	Esen Taishi (only non-Borjigin)
• 1478-1517/1543	Dayan Khan (longest ruling)
• 1557-1592	Tümen Zasagt Khan
• 1603-1634	Ligdan Khan
• 1634-1635	Ejei Khan (last)
Legislature	Yassa Customary rules[3]
Historical era	Late Middle Ages
• Fall of Dadu to Ming forces	September 1368
• Death of Uskhal Khan Tögüs Temür	1388
• Dayan Khan reunites the Mongol nation	1483–1510
• Death of Ligdan Khan	1634
• Ejei Khan submits to the Later Jin	1635
Currency	barter, Dirham
Preceded by Succeeded by Yuan dynasty Four Oirat Later Jīn Kara Del Khalkas Mongolia under Qing rule
Today part of	China Mongolia Russia

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The Northern Yuan (Chinese: 北元; pinyin: Běi Yuán) was a dynastic regime ruled by the Mongol Borjigin clan based in the Mongolian Plateau. It existed as a rump state after the collapse of the Yuan dynasty in 1368 and lasted until its conquest by the Jurchen-led Later Jin dynasty in 1635. The Northern Yuan dynasty began with the retreat of the Yuan imperial court led by Toghon Temür (Emperor Huizong of Yuan) to the Mongolian steppe. This period featured factional struggles and the often only nominal role of the Great Khan.

Dayan Khan and Mandukhai Khatun reunited most Mongol tribes in the late 15th century.^[4] However, the former's distribution of his empire among his sons and relatives as fiefs caused the decentralization of the imperial rule.^[5] Despite this decentralization, a remarkable concord continued within the Dayan Khanid aristocracy, and intra-Chinggisid civil war remained unknown until the reign of Ligdan Khan (1604–1634),^[6] who saw much of his power weakened in his quarrels with the Mongol tribes and was defeated by the Later Jin dynasty. The last sixty years of this period featured the intensive penetration of Tibetan Buddhism into Mongol society.