Wuhuan
Proto-Mongolic nomadic people of northern China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about a nomadic people that lived in northern China. For the Chinese city, see Wuhan.
The Wuhuan (simplified Chinese: 乌桓; traditional Chinese: 烏桓; pinyin: Wūhuán, < Eastern Han Chinese: *ʔɑ-ɣuɑn, < Old Chinese (c. 78 BCE): *ʔâ-wân < *Awar[1]) were a Proto-Mongolic[2][3] or para-Mongolic[4] nomadic people who inhabited northern China, in what is now the provinces of Hebei, Liaoning, Shanxi, the municipality of Beijing and the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia.