Bayan

Bayan was a Hurka Jurchen polity seated at Bayan Susu on the north bank of the middle Songhua, the place that gives present-day Bayan County its name. Bayan means rich in Mongolian and Manchu, and the surrounding country was held by Hurka and other forest Tungusic clans until their incorporation into the rising Manchu state in the early seventeenth century.