The Jurchen were a sedentary, Tungus-speaking people living in Manchuria and southeastern Siberia. In the eleventh century there were two groups of Jurchen. One was a little-assimilated group of "raw" tribesmen living more or less the...

The Jurchens (traditional Chinese: 女眞; simplified Chinese: 女真; pinyin: nǚzhēn) were a Tungus people who inhabited the region of Manchuria (Northeast China) until the 17th century, when they became known as the Manchus. They established the Jin...