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== Name ==

The Mongol Empire is also referred to as the "Mongolian Empire" or the "Mongol World Empire" in some English sources.<ref>{{cite book | chapter-url = https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-china/rise-of-the-mongolian-empire-and-mongolian-rule-in-north-china/45194CDE5E52D31FF2DEF5FF3D40160F | chapter = The rise of the Mongolian empire and Mongolian rule in north China | doi = 10.1017/CHOL9780521243315.006 | access-date = 7 September 2023 | title = The Cambridge History of China | date = 1994 | last1 = Allsen | first1 = Thomas | pages = 321–413 | isbn = 9781139054744 | archive-date = 7 September 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230907203311/https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-china/rise-of-the-mongolian-empire-and-mongolian-rule-in-north-china/45194CDE5E52D31FF2DEF5FF3D40160F | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title = Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire|last = Buell|first = Paul|publisher = Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|year = 2018|isbn = 9781538111376|page = 214}}</ref>

The empire referred to itself as {{MongolUnicode|ᠶᠡᠬᠡ<br />ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ<br />ᠤᠯᠤᠰ}} ''{{lang|xng|yeke ~~Mongγol~~mongɣol ulus''}} ({{lit}} 'nation of the great Mongols' or the 'great Mongol nation') in Mongol or ''{{lang|xng|kür uluγ ulus''}} ({{lit}} the 'whole great nation') in Turkic.<ref name=philology>{{cite book|title= Introduction to Altaic Philology: Turkic, Mongolian, Manchu|year= 2010|page= 169|author1= Igor de Rachewiltz |author2=Volker Rybatzki}}</ref>

After the 1260 to 1264 [[Toluid Civil War|succession war]] between [[Kublai Khan]] and his brother [[Ariq Böke]], Kublai's power became limited to the eastern part of the empire, centered on China. Kublai officially issued an imperial [[edict]] on 18 December 1271 to give the empire the [[Han Chinese|Han]]-style dynastic name of "Great Yuan" (''Dai Yuan'', or ''Dai Ön Ulus'''; {{zh|c={{linktext|大|元}}|p=Dà Yuán}}) and to establish the [[Yuan dynasty]]. Some sources give the full Mongol name as ''Dai Ön Yehe Monggul Ulus''.<ref>Rybatzki. p. 116.</ref>