Chahar

Chahar is a country of grasslands north of the Great Wall, associated with the Mongol people of the same name. In the seventeenth century the Chahar faced the expanding Qing state. After the rebellion of Burni in 1675 was defeated, surviving Chahar groups were moved to pastures beyond Xuanhua and Datong and organised into eight banners. Their new grazing lands lay across the steppe south of the Gobi, under the authority of the Qing court.