Lanikaz is one of supposedly Turkic tribes known from Arab

Arab

Arab people, also known as Arabs , are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds, with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal relationships playing...

 and Persian

Persian people

The Persian people are part of the Iranian peoples who speak the modern Persian language and closely akin Iranian dialects and languages. The origin of the ethnic Iranian/Persian peoples are traced to the Ancient Iranian peoples, who were part of the ancient Indo-Iranians and themselves part of...

 Middle Age geographers and writers as being one of the seven tribes in the Kimak Kaganate

Kimek Khanate

The Kimek Khanate, also spelled Kimäk Khanate and Kimak Kaganate was a prominent medieval Turkic state formed by the Kimek and Kipchak people in the area between the Ob-Irtysh....

 in the period of 743-1050 AD. The other six constituent tribes per Abu Said Gardizi

Abu Said Gardizi

Abu Saʿīd Abdul-Hay ibn Dhaḥḥāk ibn Maḥmūd Gardēzī, Gardīzī or Gurdēzī was a Persian Muslim geographer and historian of the early 11th century from Gardēz who wrote the book Zayn al-Akhbār...

 (died 1061) were Kimaks, Yamak, Kipchaks

Kipchaks

Kipchaks were a Turkic tribal confederation...

, Tatars

Tatars

Tatars are a Turkic speaking ethnic group , numbering roughly 7 million.The majority of Tatars live in the Russian Federation, with a population of around 5.5 million, about 2 million of which in the republic of Tatarstan.Significant minority populations are found in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,...

, Bayandur

Bayandur

Bayandur is one of Turkic tribes known from Arab and Persian Middle Age geographers and writers as being one of the seven tribes in the Kimak Kaganate in the period of 743-1050 AD. The other six constituent tribes per Abu Said Gardizi were Kimaks, Yamaks, Kipchaks, Tatars, Lanikaz, and Ajlad...

, and Ajlad

Ajlad

Ajlad is one of supposedly Turkic tribes known from Arab and Persian Middle Age geographers and writers as being one of the seven tribes in the Kimak Kaganate in the period of 743-1050 AD. The other six constituent tribes per Abu Said Gardizi were Kimaks, Yamak, Kipchaks, Tatars, Bayandur, and...

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Yu.Zuev calls the spelling "Lanikaz" an "obviously distorted name of the Kimek tribe in the Gardizi list", and corrects it to "Laktan", observing that Chinese annals

Twenty-Four Histories

The Twenty-Four Histories is a collection of Chinese historical books covering a period from 3000 BC to the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century. The whole set contains 3213 volumes and about 40 million words...

 contain a "number of messages about congratulatory visits of Kimeks-Laktans to Chang'an

Chang'an

Chang'an is an ancient capital of more than ten dynasties in Chinese history, today known as Xi'an. Chang'an literally means "Perpetual Peace" in Classical Chinese. During the short-lived Xin Dynasty, the city was renamed "Constant Peace" ; yet after its fall in AD 23, the old name was restored...

, attesting to the political importance of this tribe. They do not contain any other information." The location of the Kimek Laktan area, before the Kimek's return back to the area of Black Irtysh, in the Chinese annals is described as east from the lake Külün

Lake Hulun

Hulun Lake , is a lake in Inner Mongolia, China. It is one of the five largest freshwater lakes in all of China, covering approximately 2,339 km²....

 on the northern left bank of the river Argun

Argun River (Asia)

Ergune or Argun is the river which is a part of the Russia–China border. Its upper reaches are known as Hailar River in China. Its length is 1,007 mi...

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