• The
Eight Banners are former administrative divisions of China into which all
Manchu households were placed, primarily for military purposes. • Banner (Qosighun or khoshun) as former division of all
Mongols under Qing rule (includes Inner/
Outer Mongolia) grouped in aimag (league), sometimes transcribed by hoshuns or khoshuns, were the
battalion level of administrative/military subdivision in the Mongol army. •
Banner (Inner Mongolia) as an administrative division of
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the
People's Republic of China, equivalent to a
Chinese county (|[]) in the rest of China. • An
Autonomous banner is an area associated with one or more ethnic minorities designated as autonomous within the People's Republic of China. •
Kozhuun, subdivisions of former
Tannu Uriankhai and now Russian
Tuva. ==Anatolia==