Khitans
The Khitans were a Eurasian nomadic people of Manchuria and the Mongolian plateau, traditionally associated with the Khitan confederation. They spoke the Khitan language, now extinct, and developed two writing systems, the large script and the small script, used mainly for inscriptions and official records. The Khitans established a political power in the region that would give rise to the Liao Dynasty and a distinctive administrative culture that blended Khitan and Chinese practices.
In 907, under the Yelü clan, the Khitans founded the Liao Dynasty, ruling a large territory in
The Liao fell to the Jurchen Jin in 1125, and many Khitans fled westward to establish the