Editing Mongolia (section)

== Etymology ==
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The name Mongolia means the "Land of the Mongols" in Latin. The Mongolian word ''"Mongol"'' ({{wikt-lang|mn|монгол}}) is of uncertain etymology. Sükhbataar (1992) and de la Vaissière (2021) proposed it being a derivation from [[Yujiulü Mugulü|Mugulü]], the 4th-century founder of the [[Rouran Khaganate]],<ref>{{Cite book |first=Г.|last=Сүхбаатар |title=Монголын эртний түүх судлал, III боть |year=1992 |volume=3 |pages=330–550 |language=mn |trans-title=Historiography of Ancient Mongolia, Volume III |chapter=Монгол Нирун улс |trans-chapter=Mongol Nirun ([[Rouran]]) state}}</ref> first attested as the 'Mungu',<ref name="Svanty">{{cite book|last1=Svantesson|first1=Jan-Olof|last2=Tsendina|first2=Anna|last3=Karlsson|first3=Anastasia|last4=Franzén|first4=Vivian|title=The Phonology of Mongolian|pages=103–105|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|year=2005|isbn=978-0199554270|series=Phonologies of the World's Languages}}</ref> ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: {{wikt-lang|zh|蒙兀}}, <small>Modern Chinese</small> ''Měngwù'', <small>[[Middle Chinese]]</small> ''Muwngu''),<ref>{{cite book|last=Pulleyblank|first=Edwin George|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qBvsXylluO4C|title=Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese, and Early Mandarin|publisher=UBC Press|year=1991|isbn=0-7748-0366-5}}.</ref> a branch of the [[Shiwei people|Shiwei]] in an 8th-century [[Tang dynasty]] list of northern tribes, presumably related to the [[Liao dynasty|Liao]]-era ''Mungku''<ref name="Svanty" /> (Chinese: {{wikt-lang|zh|蒙古}}, <small>[[pinyin|Modern Chinese]]</small> ''Měnggǔ'', <small>[[Middle Chinese]]</small> ''MuwngkuX'').<ref name="BaxSag">Baxter, Wm. H. & Sagart, Laurent. ''{{Cite web |title=Baxter–Sagart Old Chinese Reconstruction |url=http://crlao.ehess.fr/docannexe.php?id=1207 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425064509/http://crlao.ehess.fr/docannexe.php?id=1207 |archive-date=25 April 2012}}&nbsp;{{small|(1.93&nbsp;MB)}}''. 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2011.</ref>

After the fall of the [[Liao dynasty]] in 1125, the [[Khamag Mongol]]s became a leading tribe on the [[Mongolian Plateau]]. However, their wars with the [[Jurchen people|Jurchen]]-ruled [[Jin dynasty (1115–1234)|Jin dynasty]] and the [[Tatar confederation]] had weakened them. The last head of the tribe was [[Yesugei|Yesügei]], whose son [[Genghis Khan|Temüjin]] (Genghis Khan) eventually united all the Shiwei tribes as the [[Mongol Empire]] (''Yekhe Monggol Ulus''). In the thirteenth century, the word Mongol grew into an umbrella term for a large group of [[Mongolic languages|Mongolic-speaking]] tribes united under the rule of [[Genghis Khan]].<ref name="britannica">{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Mongolia: Ethnography of Mongolia |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |url=https://www.britannica.com/eb/article-27420/Mongolia#394579.hook |access-date=2007-07-22 |archive-date=6 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706041059/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-27420/Mongolia#394579.hook |url-status=live}}</ref>

Since the adoption of the new [[Constitution of Mongolia]] on 13 February 1992, the official name of the state is "Mongolia" (''Mongol Uls'').<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sanders |first1=Alan J. K. |title=Historical Dictionary of Mongolia |date=20 May 2010 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7452-7 |page=449 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5JN83EDDLl4C |language=en |quote=Since the proclamation of the 1992 Mongolian Constitution, the official name of the independent Mongolian state, previously (1924–92) the Mongolian People's Republic, has been simply Mongolia (''Mongol Uls'').}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Everett-Heath |first1=John |title=The Concise Dictionary of World Place-names |date=2005 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-860537-9 |page=346 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fghrQgAACAAJ |language=en}}</ref>