Sartuul
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Sartuul (Mongolian: Сартуул) is one of the Mongol clans. A common hypothesis is the origin of the Sartuuls from the Sarts. Another hypothesis is the version that traces the origin of the Sartuuls to an area called Sarta Uula (Moon Mountain) or Sart Uul (Mountain with the Moon), the name of a mountain where they live.[1] During the Chinese Qing dynasty rule, there was a banner named Tsetsen Sartuul's hoshuu (Wise Sartuul's banner) and descendants of the banner began to use its name as a clan name when Mongolians began using their ancestors' clan names after 1990.
9 khutagts of Khalkha and 2 presidents of Mongolia are from the Tsetsen Sartuul's hoshuu.
According to Mongolia’s 2015 Interim Population and Housing Census, 2 166 people self-identified as Sartuul, up from 1 286 in the 2010 full census.[2]
Present-day distribution
A 2018 report by the state news agency MONTSAME notes that Sartuul households are concentrated in eleven soums of Zavkhan Province, where local officials recognise them as a distinct cultural group.[3] A tourist ethnography compiled by *Mongolia-Guide* adds that smaller Sartuul communities exist in seven other provinces and twenty-four soums nationwide.[4]
History and sources
Much of the clan’s internal history is preserved in the three-volume chronicle Sart Gol Tsetsen Vangiin Shashdir Orshvoi (“Treatise on the Sart River Wise Prince’s Banner”), published in 2017 and deposited in the National Archives of Mongolia. The set is accompanied by a 32-metre genealogical scroll listing more than 4 000 individuals and tracing the banner’s ruling line over thirty generations to Genghis Khan.[5][3]