The Göktürks founded two major khanates known as the Turkic Khaganate: First Turkic Khaganate, which then fractured into Western Turkic Khaganate; Eastern Turkic Khaganate; Second Turkic Khaganate; See also. Turkic khanate; List of Turkic dynasties and countries This page was last edited on 17 ...

The First Turkic Khaganate, also referred to as the First Turkic Empire, the Turkic Khaganate or the Göktürk Khaganate, was a Turkic khaganate established by the Ashina clan of the Göktürks in medieval Inner Asia under the leadership of Bumin Qaghan (d. 552) and his brother Istämi.The First Turkic Khaganate succeeded the Rouran Khaganate as the hegemonic …

The Old Turkic script (also known as variously Göktürk script, Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisey script, Turkic runes) was the alphabet used by the Göktürks and other early Turkic khanates from the 8th to 10th centuries to record the Old Turkic language.. The script is named after the Orkhon Valley in Mongolia where early 8th-century inscriptions were discovered in an 1889 …

The Yuezhi reached the Hellenic kingdom of Greco-Bactria (in northern Afghanistan and Uzbekistan) around 135 BC. The displaced Greek dynasties resettled to the southeast in areas of the Hindu Kush and the Indus basin (in present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan), occupying the western part of the Indo-Greek Kingdom.. In South Asia, Kushan emperors regularly used the …

Turkish (Türkçe (), Türk dili), also referred to as Turkish of Turkey (Türkiye Türkçesi), is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 80 to 90 million speakers.It is the national language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus.Significant smaller groups of Turkish speakers also exist in Iraq, Syria, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Greece, the Caucasus, and other ...

The Han–Xiongnu War, also known as the Sino–Xiongnu War, was a series of military battles fought between the Han Empire and the nomadic Xiongnu confederation from 133 BC to 89 AD.. Starting from Emperor Wu's reign (r. 141–87 BC), the Han Empire changed from a relatively passive foreign policy to an offensive strategy to deal with the increasing Xiongnu incursions …

Rise. In 657, the Western Turkic Khaganate was defeated by the Tang dynasty, after which the Uyghurs defected to the Tang.Prior to this the Uyghurs had already shown an inclination towards alliances with the Tang when they fought with them against the Tibetan Empire and Turks in 627.. In 742, the Uyghurs, Karluks, and Basmyls rebelled against the Second Turkic Khaganate.

The Khazars (/ ˈ x ɑː z ɑːr z /) were a semi-nomadic Turkic people that in the late 6th-century CE established a major commercial empire covering the southeastern section of modern European Russia, southern Ukraine, Crimea, and Kazakhstan. They created what for its duration was the most powerful polity to emerge from the break-up of the Western Turkic Khaganate.

The Uyghurs (/ ˈ w iː ɡ ʊər z,-ɡ ər z / WEE-goorz, -⁠gərz), alternatively spelled Uighurs, Uygurs or Uigurs, are a Turkic ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central and East Asia.The Uyghurs are recognized as native to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwest China.They are one of China's 55 officially recognized ethnic ...

Origins. Turkic-Persian tradition was a variant of Islamic culture. It was Islamic in that Islamic notions of virtue, permanence, and excellence infused discourse about public issues as well as the religious affairs of the Muslims, who were the presiding elite.. After the Muslim conquest of Persia, Middle Persian, the language of Sassanids, continued in wide use well into the second …