Eastern Turkic Khaganate

For the Second Eastern Turkic Khaganate (682–744), see Second Turkic Khaganate.

Eastern Turkic Khaganate
Greatest extent of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate
StatusKhaganate (Nomadic empire)
CapitalÖtüken
Common languages
Religion
Tengrism, Buddhism[2]
Khagan 
• 603–609
Yami Qaghan
• 620–630
Illig Qaghan
• 645–650
Chebi Khan
Establishment
Historical eraEarly 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[3]4,000,000 km2 (1,500,000 sq mi)
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
First Turkic Khaganate
Xueyantuo
Protectorate General to Pacify the North
Second Turkic Khaganate
Today part ofChina
Kazakhstan
Mongolia
Russia
Shoroon Bumbagar tomb mural, Göktürk, 7th century CE, in modern-day Mongolia.[4][5][6][7]
Shoroon Bumbagar tomb mural, Göktürk, 7th century CE, Mongolia.[8][9][6][7]
A Turk mourning the Buddha, Kyzyl, Mingoi, Maya cave.[10][11]

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.

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