As one oftheactivenomadicnationsin the Northwest of China, the Tanguts founded the Western XiaDynastycenteringnowYinchuanfrom 1038 to 1227 in the history.
The Soviet planners who re- drew the map in the 1920s divided Central Asia broadly along linguistic lines, hoping to construct nations from the various nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes of desert and steppe by exaggerating the differences between their dialects.