Modu Chanyu

Modu Chanyu (kineski: 冒頓單于) ponekad također navođen kao Modun ili Maodun, cca. 234. pne. - 174. pne.) bio je osnivač i prvi vladar Xiongnu Carstva od 209. do 174. pne.

Bio je general u vojsci svog oca Toumana, a kasnije i chanyu odnosno car Xiongnu Carstva smještenog u suvremenoj Mongoliji.

Povezano

• Xiongnu-kineski rat
• Jin Midi
• Ban Chao

Izvori

• Watson, Burton. (1993). Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian. Translated by Burton Watson. Revised Edition. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-08167-7.
• Hulsewé, A. F. P. and Loewe, M. A. N. (1979). China in Central Asia: The Early Stage 125 BC – AD 23: an annotated translation of chapters 61 and 96 of the History of the Former Han Dynasty. E. J. Brill, Leiden. ISBN 90-04-05884-2.
• Beckwith, Christopher I. (2009): Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-13589-2.

Eksterni linkovi

• All Empires: The Xiongnu Empire
• The Xiongnu - China Knowledge site