Khongorai

Khongorai was a tribal confederation centred on the Minusinsk Basin in southern Siberia, with the Yenisei Kyrgyz among its leading peoples. In 1399 their leader Ügechi Khashikha gave the alliance its name.

In 1614 Prince Nomchi attacked the Russian fort at Tomsk but failed to take it. After the Dzungars defeated the Altan Khans in 1667, Khongorai became subject to the Dzungar Khanate. Russia gradually incorporated the region during the eighteenth century, and its people were among the ancestors of the Khakas.