Magnates and their honours · The Yenisei Kyrgyz · as at first light, 1 January 1200

Aldier and Olebek-tegin

Two more Kyrgyz princes named in 1207 beside Yedi Inal.

The title tegin is the Turkic prince's rank. One of them may stand for the Kem-Kemjiut of Tuva, the other for the Kyrgyz of the Abakan, but no source says so. The record keeps their names so that the campaign has chiefs to hand; none of them is dated to 1200.

Who he is

Name
Aldier and Olebek-tegin (1207 names; 1200 holders not known)
Title
Princes (inal and tegin) of the Kyrgyz union
Since
not known
Born
not known
Family
Not known
Confidence
low

Russian summary of Rashid (zolord.ru); Zoriktuev.

Overlord

The senior inal, loosely.

What it holds

  • Followings and camps in the Kyrgyz union (sites not known)

Allies and rivals

Together with Yedi Inal in 1207.

Wealth

As the Kyrgyz.

Military

As the Kyrgyz.

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

  1. 1207Submit to Jochi with Yedi Inal.Depends on: Temujin's rise. Stopped by: A Naiman or Merkit revival.

Where the sources disagree

  • Names come from 1207; the kinsfolk of the old khagans may have held other names in 1200.

Evidence: One passage.

On the map: No map part.

Primary sources for The Yenisei Kyrgyz

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.

  • The Secret History of the Mongols (1228 or 1240 (the colophon's Year of the Rat is disputed), with later additions; the surviving Chinese transcription and gloss were made under the Ming in the 1380s). The only Mongol account of Temujin's rise, written within living memory. Read online
  • Compendium of Chronicles, Rashid al-Din Fadl Allah Hamadani (1300 to 1311, at Tabriz). The official Ilkhanid history, compiled from Mongol oral tradition and the lost Altan Debter. Read online
  • Compendium of Chronicles: the Turkic and Mongol tribes and the life of Chinggis Khan, Rashid al-Din Hamadani (about 1300 to 1311, in the Ilkhanate). The fullest description of who held what on the steppe around 1200, written a century later from Mongol court records (the Altan Debter) and from informants such as Bolad Chingsang. Read online
  • History of the Yuan, Song Lian (宋濂) and the Ming history office (1369 to 1370). Juan 1, the annals of Taizu (Chinggis Khan), gives a dated outline of Temujin's early wars drawn from the same lost Altan Debter as the Shengwu qinzheng lu: the Tatar war with the Jin in 1196, the Merkit and Naiman campaigns, the Tayichi'ut war, Jamuqa's coalition of 1201 and the Tatar and Kereyit wars of 1202 and 1203. Read online

Sources and studies

  1. Fate of the Yenisei Kyrgyz (zolord.ru), summarising Rashid al-Din on 1207
  2. B. R. Zoriktuev, on the Mongol campaign to the Yenisei in 1207, Tuva.Asia

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