The Altai Mountains were the homeland of the Turks and a region where Turkic tribes lived.
Inner Mongolia is a region where the Turkic world in the Altai and the Mongolian tribes living in the western and southwestern regions of Manchuria came into contact.
From time to time the Turks entered the Mongolian world and sometimes the Mongols extended towards the Altai.
Although they were completely different from each other in terms of race, as a result of these contacts the relations between these two worlds, which were related in terms of culture and language, have not been fully studied until now.
For example; Some tribes that were first located in the Altai and later migrated to the eastern regions where the Mongols dominated were accepted as a Mongol tribe by scholars solely based on their geographical situation.
On the other hand, the Mongols also infiltrated the west from time to time.
Inner Mongolia served as an intermediate zone in all these Show More