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Mongolian Surnames

After losing their surnames during Communist Rule, since 1997 Mongolians have been required to have them again. This interesting saga has, among other things, led to everyone wanting Genghis Khan’s tribal name “Brojigin.” Read more about this on this posting at Keywords and this article. I also talked a little bit about Mongolia’s national fascination with Genghis Khan here.

Posted by Muninn on Sunday, July 18, 2004, at 16:53. Filed under Current Events, Links. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment, but trackbacks are closed.

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  1. The Marmot's Hole | 2004.7.22 at 1:41 | Permalink

    Mongolian surnames — kinda like Mongolian seafood
    Over at Keywords, Kerim posts on Mongolian surnames, or the need for thereof:
    Mongolians need surnames. Actually, they had surnames, but they lost them. How do you loose your surname? Well, it seems that the use of Surnames was banned during the commu…

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