Tumen
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For other uses, see Tumen (disambiguation).
Tumen was the part of decimal system used by Turkic, Proto-Turkic (such as the Huns) and by Mongol peoples for their army. Tumen is army of 10,000 soldiers. It also means "many" or "large" in Mongolian. Under Genghis Khan's military system, Tumen is constructed from units of 10, 100, 1000 soldiers and commanded by a noyan. It is a military unit which is still used in the Turkish army. It's considered a significant size of army or soldiers to use in possible warfare without being too small or too large such as in a campaign. Tumens were considered reasonable size in Genghis Khan and Great Khans' era and campaigns and the military strategy were based on the use of tumens as an useful building block causing reasonable shock and attack.
Minghan was a unit of 1,000, jagun (yaghun, jak?n) was a unit of 100 and arban was a unit of 10.
