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Conflict East Asia

Göktürk Wars

552 CE – 744 CE · 192 years

The Göktürks built the first great Turkic empire, stretching from Manchuria to the Byzantine frontier, before splitting into eastern and western khaganates and eventually falling to Tang China and the Uyghurs.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Göktürk Khaganate
  • Rouran, Sassanid Persia, Tang China, Uyghur

Key moments

Defining events in the Göktürk Wars.

  1. 552 Destruction of Rouran Khaganate
  2. 560s Istemi's western conquests
  3. 630 Tang conquest of Eastern Göktürks

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Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 552 CE and 744 CE.

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And in the rest of the world

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