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The Mongols gained fame in the 13th century when under Chinggis KHAN they conquered a huge Eurasian empire. After his death the empire was divided into several powerful Mongol states, but these broke apart in the 14th century. The Mongols eventually retired to their original steppe homelands and later came under Chinese rule. Mongolia won its independence in 1921 with Soviet backing. A Communist regime was installed in 1924. During the early 1990s, the ex-Communist Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) gradually yielded its monopoly on power to the Democratic Union Coalition (DUC), which defeated the MPRP in a national election in 1996. Since then, parliamentary elections returned the MPRP overwhelmingly to power in 2000 and produced a coalition government in 2004. To be updated
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November 1st 2009 Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert
Three Brits, two Finns and a Mongolian! We all took an old Russian van that was prone to breaking down, thousands of kilometeres into the Gobi desert on a week long trip. Each night we would sleep in ... 34 photos [full story]
Three Brits, two Finns and a Mongolian! We all took an old Russian van that was prone to breaking down, thousands of kilometeres into the Gobi desert on a week long trip. Each night we would sleep in ... 34 photos [full story]
October 30th 2009 Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar
The capital city of Mongolia....is....cold, and.....not all that interesting! We spent a day and a half wandering around, and saw all it had to offer. It's very small and sights are limited. The Na ... 9 photos [full story]
The capital city of Mongolia....is....cold, and.....not all that interesting! We spent a day and a half wandering around, and saw all it had to offer. It's very small and sights are limited. The Na ... 9 photos [full story]
13 weeks ago: JHG published a blog
30 hours, one train and a long border crossing! (Beijing to Ulan Bator)
30 hours, one train and a long border crossing! (Beijing to Ulan Bator)
October 28th 2009 Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar
At 07.45 we boarded a 30 hour train to Ulan Bator! This was going to be the longest journey I had ever done...so far! The three of us had a comfortable four berth cabin to ourselves, with the botto ... 8 photos [full story]
At 07.45 we boarded a 30 hour train to Ulan Bator! This was going to be the longest journey I had ever done...so far! The three of us had a comfortable four berth cabin to ourselves, with the botto ... 8 photos [full story]
November 7th 2009 Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar
I don't know if I've ever been in a city that has renamed and or moved itself as many times as Ulaan Baatar has! When a capitol of the more recent Mongolian empire was first declared it was 1639 and ... 29 photos [full story]
I don't know if I've ever been in a city that has renamed and or moved itself as many times as Ulaan Baatar has! When a capitol of the more recent Mongolian empire was first declared it was 1639 and ... 29 photos [full story]
September 7th 2008 Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert
I've been pretending to myself that I will write up all of the great times and memories that I had on my travels for almost a year now and starting to realise that it was perhaps too much of a grand t ... 128 photos [full story]
I've been pretending to myself that I will write up all of the great times and memories that I had on my travels for almost a year now and starting to realise that it was perhaps too much of a grand t ... 128 photos [full story]
November 7th 2009 Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar
I wonder about the people that I meet or walk by or attempt to talk to in the course of a day. The edges of their lives just barely touching mine. People that I remember and think about but don ... [full story]
I wonder about the people that I meet or walk by or attempt to talk to in the course of a day. The edges of their lives just barely touching mine. People that I remember and think about but don ... [full story]
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