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KALKAS, or KHALKKAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 642 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KALKAS, or KHALKKAS  , a Mongoloid
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people mainly concentrated in the
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northern
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steppes of
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Mongolia near their kinsmen, the
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Buriats . According to
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Sir H . Howorth they derive their name from the
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river Kalka, which runs into the Buir lake . Of all Mongolians they physically differ most from the true Mongol type (see
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MONGOLS) . Their colour is a brown rather than a yellow, and their eyes are open and not oblique . They have, however, the broad flat face, high cheekbones and lank black hair of their
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race . They number some 250,000, and their territory is divided into the four khanates of Tushetu (Tushiyetu), Tsetien (Setzen), Sai'noi'm (Sain Noyan) and Jesaktu (Jassaktu) .

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