Editing Agvaan Luvsan Choijinnyam Danzan Vanchüg

{{Infobox politician|name=Agvaan Luvsan Choijinnyam Danzan Vanchüg|native_name=Агваанлувсанчойжинямданзанванчүг|image_size=200|birth_date=c. 1869|birth_place=Lhasa, [[Qing dynasty]]|death_date=1924 May 20|death_place=Niislel Khüree, [[Bogd Khanate|Mongolia]]|nationality=Mongolian|political_orientation=[[Feudalism]]<br>[[Buddhist]] [[Religious fundamentalism|fundamentalism]]|image=Bogd Khan.png}}

'''Agvaan Luvsan Choijinnyam Danzan Vanchüg''', commonly known by the title of '''Bogd Khan''', was the ruler of [[Bogd Khanate of Mongolia (1911–1924)|Mongolia]] from its 1911 independence from the [[Qing dynasty (1636–1912)|Qing dynasty]] until the 1921 [[Mongolian People's Revolution]].

== 1911 revolution ==
After the Qing occupation of Mongolia was overthrown in 1911, the feudal [[nobility]] led by the Bogd Khan took power. [[Yuan Shikai]], the new ruler of [[Republic of China|China]], refused to recognize Mongolia's independence.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|author=A. A. Guber, et al.|year=1973|title=History of the Mongolian People's Republic|title-url=https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfTheMPR/page/n116/mode/1up|chapter=The National-Liberation Movement of the Mongolian People}}</ref><sup>:237–40</sup> The Bogd Khan confiscated the Qing royalty's herds and gave them to princes and lamas.<ref name=":0" /><sup>:251–4</sup>

== Rule of Mongolia ==
The Bogd Khan sent [[Tserenchimed]] to [[Empire of Japan (1868–1947)|Japan]] and requested a Japanese protectorate over Mongolia, which Japan refused in order to avoid angering [[Russian Empire (1721–1917)|Russia]]. In 1913 February, Mongolia formed a brigade in the Russian army with 1,900 soldiers. The Bogd Khan withdrew his troops from Inner Mongolia in 1913, and Russia withdrew its troops from Outer Mongolia in 1914.<ref name=":0" /><sup>:240–7</sup>

The Bogd Khan allied with the pro-Japanese Anhui clique of Chinese warlords, who invaded Mongolia in 1918. In mid-1919, after retaking the East, the Soviet government abolished all unequal treaties Russia had had with Mongolia. The Khan rejected the Whiteguard [[Grigory Semyonov|Semyonov]]'s plan to unify all Mongol lands into a single state that Japan could control, which collapsed in 1919.<ref name=":03">{{Citation|author=A. A. Guber, et al.|year=1973|title=History of the Mongolian People's Republic|title-url=https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfTheMPR/page/n116/mode/1up|chapter=The Mongolian People's Revolution and the Proclamation of the Mongolian People's Republic|page=}}</ref><sup>:272–5</sup> The [[White Army|White]] [[Roman Ungern-Sternberg|Baron Ungern]] allied with the Bogd Khan and defeated the Zhili clique in February 1921. Ungern executed the Minister for the Western Province and removed the War Minister from office.<ref name=":03" /><sup>:281–4</sup>

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