Editing Amur Oblast (section)

===Early history===
According to the ''Bei Shi'' (Dynastic History of Northern Dynasties) and the ''Sui Shu'' (Chronicles of the [[Sui dynasty]]), both Chinese records, this area belonged originally to the territory one of the five semi-[[nomad]]ic [[Shiwei people|Shiwei]], the Bo Shiwei tribes ({{zh|c=钵室韋}}). Their settlements were located on the north of the Yilehuli Mountains in the upper reaches of the [[Nen River]], south of the [[Stanovoy Range]], west of the [[Bureya Range|Bureya]] and the [[Malyi Khingan]] ranges and reaching the [[Okhotsk Sea]] on the northeast. They brought tributary presents to the [[Tang dynasty|Tang]] court and disappeared at the dawn of the tenth century with the foundation of the [[Liao Dynasty|Liao]] empire.

Later, in the 13th century, the middle-[[Amur River|Amur]] and the [[Zeya River]] basin area became the homeland of the [[Daur people|Daurs]] and (further south) the [[Ducher]]s. The ancestors of the Daurs are thought to be closely related to the [[Khitan people|Khitans]] and the [[Mongols]], while the Duchers may have been a branch of the [[Jurchen people]], later known as the [[Manchus]].

The area was conquered by the [[Manchu people|Manchus]] in 1639–1640, after defeating the [[Evenks|Evenk]] Federation led by [[Bombogor (Evenk chief)|Bombogor]]. It was returned to the [[Qing dynasty]] in the [[Treaty of Nerchinsk]] with the [[Tsardom of Russia]].