Circuit, prefecture or people · The Amur, Ussuri and Changbai peoples · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Primorye coast

The coast east of Peter the Great Bay: fishing and sea-hunting Jurchen and Udege villages; a few Jurchen sites on the bays.

The Bohai fortresses of the old coast (Kraskino and others) are ruins.

Who holds it

Title
Village headmen; none named
Since
not pinned
Born
not known
Confidence
low

None named.

How things stand that morning

Quiet; nothing recorded for the winter of 1199-1200 in what we could read.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Almost nothing is known.

On the map: Rough outline; Jin prefecture boundaries are not fixed on any map we could use.

Primary sources for Amur and Ussuri peoples

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

  • History of the Jin, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office, with Ouyang Xuan among the chief compilers (1343 to 1344, from the Jin veritable records and the Jin national history). The official history of the Jurchen empire that ruled north China and Manchuria in 1200. Read online

Sources and studies

  1. Russian archaeology of the Jurchen fortresses of Primorye (Shaiga, Nikolaevskoye, Krasnoyarovskoye; E. V. Shavkunov, N. G. Artemyeva): from memory, ru.wikipedia pages were blocked this session

Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.