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{{short description|Sister of Genghis Khan}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Temülün
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| birth_date         = {{c.|1171 AD}}
| birth_place        = [[Khentii Mountains]], [[Khamag Mongol]]
| death_date         = unknown
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| spouse             =
| father             = Yesügei
| mother             = Hoelün
}}
'''Temülün''' ({{c.|1171}}–?)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The birth date of Chinghis Khaan as determined through Mongolian astrology {{!}} Silk Roads Programme |url=https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/knowledge-bank/birth-date-chinghis-khaan-determined-through-mongolian-astrology |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=en.unesco.org}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Cleaves |first=Francis Woodman |title=The Secret History of the Mongols |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1982 |isbn=0674796705 |volume=1 |location=Cambridge, MA |pages=79, 99 |language=en}}</ref> was the youngest full sibling and only sister of [[Genghis Khan]] (born Temüjin), the famed founder and [[Khagan|Great Khan]] of the [[Mongol Empire]]. Her parents were [[Yesugei|Yesügei]], chief of the [[Borjigin]] clan in the [[Khamag Mongol]] confederation, and his second wife [[Hö'elün]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Weatherford |first=Jack |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/635461334 |title=The secret history of the Mongol queens : how the daughters of Genghis Khan rescued his empire |date=2010 |isbn=978-0-307-40716-0 |location=New York |publisher=Broadway Books |oclc=635461334}}</ref> She was nine years younger than Temüjin.<ref name=":0" />
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Temülün's name, like her brother's, comes from the stem ''temü'' or ''temür'', meaning "iron." The suffix ''-lun'' is a common feminine name ending.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Moses |first=Larry W. |date=1988 |title=NAMING PATTERNS AMONG THE MONGOLS |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43194448 |journal=Mongolian Studies |volume=11 |pages=25–34 |issn=0190-3667 |via=JSTOR}}</ref>
''[[The Secret History of the Mongols]]'', a chronicle of Mongol history, mentions Temülün three times: in an account of Temüjin's legendary birth<ref name=":0" /> and twice in an episode wherein an infant Temülün and her family are attacked by the [[Taichiud|Taychiud]] tribe.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cleaves |first=Francis Woodman |title=The Secret History of the Mongols |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1982 |isbn=0674796705 |location=Cambridge, MA |pages=25, 34 |language=en}}</ref>
Temülün's father Yesügei died in a [[Tatars|Tatar]] attack when she was a baby, leaving the rest of the family to be raised by Hö'elün.
She had six older brothers: Temüjin, [[Qasar]], [[Hachiun]], [[Temüge]], [[Behter]], and [[Belgutei|Belgütei]] (the latter two were her half-siblings).
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