Altan Khan's Unification of Mongolia

Name: Altan Khan's Unification of Mongolia
Start: 1551
End: 1559

Type Event Region Mongolia Time 1551–1559

In the 1550s Tümed leader Altan Khan unified Mongol tribes on the eastern steppe, making Köke Khota (today's Hohhot) his political center and laying …

Timeline

1551–1554Tümed steppe · TümedAltan Khan unified the Tümed branches through force and marriage alliances, weakening dissenting chiefs and establishing centralized command over his followers. This reassembled the scattered Mongol tribes into a mobilizable alliance, providing the organizational basis for eastward raids on the Ming.
1555–1559Köke Khota · HohhotAltan Khan built a city and seat of government at Köke Khota on the southern slopes of the Yin Mountains as a political-military center for ruling eastern Mongolia, and further influenced neighboring tribes such as the Chahar. City-building proceeded alongside the spread of Tibetan Buddhism, marking his transformation from tribal chief to regional overlord.

Sources

Altan Khan https://www.britannica.com/biography/Altan-Khan
The Cambridge History of China, Volume 8: The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 2 — Denis Twitchett and Frederick W. Mote (eds.) (1998)