Eastern Turkic Khaganate
Eastern Turkic Khaganate | |||||||||||||
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| 581–645 | |||||||||||||
Greatest extent of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate | |||||||||||||
| Status |
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| Capital | Ötüken | ||||||||||||
| Common languages | |||||||||||||
| Religion | Tengrism, Buddhism | ||||||||||||
| Khagan | |||||||||||||
• 603–609 | Yami Qaghan | ||||||||||||
• 620–630 | Illig Qaghan | ||||||||||||
• 645–650 | Chebi Khan | ||||||||||||
| Establishment | |||||||||||||
| Historical era | Early Middle Ages | ||||||||||||
• Göktürk civil war, Eastern Khaganate founded | 581 | ||||||||||||
• East-West split | 603 | ||||||||||||
• Conquest by Tang dynasty | 630 | ||||||||||||
• Empire reestablished | 639 | ||||||||||||
• Reconquest by Tang dynasty | 645 | ||||||||||||
• Second Turkic Khaganate established | 682 | ||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||
| 624 | 4,000,000 km2 (1,500,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| Today part of | China Kazakhstan Mongolia Russia | ||||||||||||
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The Eastern Turkic Khaganate (Chinese: 東突厥; pinyin: Dōng Tūjué or Dōng Tújué) was a Turkic khaganate formed as a result of the internecine wars in the beginning of the 7th century (AD 581–603) after the First Turkic Khaganate (founded in the 6th century in the Mongolian Plateau by the Ashina clan) had splintered into two polities – one in the east and the other in the west. Finally, the Eastern Turkic Khaganate was defeated and absorbed by the Tang dynasty, and Xueyantuo occupied the territory of the former Turkic Khaganate.