Uyghur Khaganate
Uyghur Khaganate 𐱃𐰆𐰴𐰕:𐰆𐰍𐰕:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣 Toquz Oɣuz budun | |||||||||||||||
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| 744–840 | |||||||||||||||
Tamga of the Yaglakar clan
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Territory of the Uyghur Khaganate (745–850), and main contemporary polities in continental Asia | |||||||||||||||
| Status | Khaganate (Nomadic empire) | ||||||||||||||
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| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||||
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• 744–747 | Qutlugh Bilge Köl (first) | ||||||||||||||
• 841–847 | Enian Qaghan (last) | ||||||||||||||
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• Established | 744 | ||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 840 | ||||||||||||||
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| 800 | 3,100,000 km2 (1,200,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
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The Uyghur Khaganate (also Uyghur Empire or Uighur Khaganate, self defined as Toquz-Oghuz country; Old Turkic: 𐱃𐰆𐰴𐰕:𐰆𐰍𐰕:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣, romanized: Toquz Oɣuz budun, lit. 'Nine clan people', Tang-era names, with modern Hanyu Pinyin: Chinese: 回鶻; pinyin: Huíhú or Chinese: 回紇; pinyin: Huíhé) was a Turkic empire that existed for about a century between the mid 8th and 9th centuries. It was a tribal confederation under the Orkhon Uyghur (回鶻) nobility, referred to by the Chinese as the Jiu Xing ("Nine Clans"), a calque of the name Toquz Oghuz or Toquz Tughluq.