Josutu League

The Josutu League (Mongolian: ǰosutu-yin čiɣulɣan, ᠵᠣᠰᠤᠲᠤ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠴᠢᠭᠤᠯᠭᠠᠨ Chinese: 卓索圖盟; pinyin: Zhuōsuǒtú Méng) was the southernmost league of Inner Mongolia during Qing rule. It occupied land that forms part of the modern-day Chinese provinces of Liaoning, Hebei, and Chifeng in China's Inner Mongolia.

The name of Josutu was named after a place in the Tumed Right Banner, where Mongol princes regularly gathered together to administer inter-banner affairs.

Divisions[]

The Josutu League consisted of two ayimag or five banners.

• Tümed ᠲᠦᠮᠡᠳ (or Eastern Tümed): two banners
  • Tümed Left Banner (Mongghuljin Banner), led by descendants of Jelme
  • , led by descendants of the Chinggisid Altan Khan
• Kharachin ᠬᠠᠷᠠᠴᠢᠨ: three banners, all of which were led by descendants of Jelme
  • Kharachin Left Banner

In addition, the Khalkha Banner (Tangghud-Khaklha Banner) was split from the Tümed Left Banner in 1913 under the Republic of China.

Dissolution[]

The league was dissolved in 1933 by the Manchukuo government. Its territory is now distributed among the modern administrative regions:

• Fuxin County from the Tümed Left Banner.
• Chaoyang County from the Tümed Right Banner.
• Lingyuan (or Jianchang) County from the Kharachin Left Banner.
• Pingquan County annexed a large portion of the Kharachin Right and Middle Banners.
• Jianping County corresponds to an eastern portion of the Kharachin Right and Middle Banners.

There remain two Mongol autonomous counties in Liaoning.

• Some portion of the former Tümed Left Banner became Fuxin Mongol Autonomous County, Fuxin City.
• The remaining portion of the former Kharachin Left Banner became Kharachin Left Wing Mongol Autonomous County, Chaoyang City.

See also[]

• Jindandao Incident

References[]

• Yamazaki Sōyo 山崎惣與, Manshū-koku chimei daijiten 滿洲國地名大辭典, p.556,758, 1941.