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Under Ubashi Khan's leadership, approximately 200,000 Kalmyks began the journey from their pastures on the left bank of the Volga River to
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selling their children into slavery, engaging in prostitution, and stealing, according to the Manchu Qi-yi-shi. Child slaves were in demand on the
Central Asian slave market, and Torghut children were sold into this slave trade.
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tribe, by contrast, elected not to go at all. The
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249:Ejin River
212:Dalai Lama
208:Ayuka Khan
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331:"土尔扈特部落史"
245:Dzungaria
202:Biography
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154:Mongolian
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