Battle of Aksu (717)

Battle of Aksu
Date717 AD
Location
Aksu
Result Decisive Tang-Karluk victory
Belligerents
Tang dynasty
Karluks		 Umayyad Caliphate
Tibetan Empire
Turgesh allies[1]
Commanders and leaders
Tang Jiahui
Ashina Xin[1][dubious – discuss]
Ashina Xian[2]		 Al-Yashkuri, (Arab Umayyad commander)[3]
Turgesh Khan Suluk.[4][5]

The Battle of Aksu (Chinese: 撥換城之戰; Arabic: معركة أقسو) was fought between the Umayyad Caliphate, and their Turgesh and Tibetan allies, against the Tang dynasty, and their Karluk and Western Turk allies. In 717 AD, the Umayyads, guided by their Turgesh allies, besieged Buat-ɦuɑn (Aksu) and Dai-dʑiᴇk-dʑiᴇŋ (Uqturpan) in the Aksu region of Xinjiang. Tang troops backed by their protectorates in the region attacked and routed the besieging Umayyads forcing them to retreat.[1]

  1. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference bai was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Section 221 (Section 27 of the Chapter Records of Tang) of Zizhi Tongjian
  3. ^ Christopher I. Beckwith (28 March 1993). The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia: A History of the Struggle for Great Power Among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese During the Early Middle Ages. Princeton University Press. pp. 88–89. ISBN 0-691-02469-3.
  4. ^ René Grousset (1970). The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia. Rutgers University Press. pp. 114–. ISBN 978-0-8135-1304-1. aksu 717.
  5. ^ Jonathan Karam Skaff (6 August 2012). Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors: Culture, Power, and Connections, 580-800. Oxford University Press. pp. 311–. ISBN 978-0-19-999627-8.