Uyghur Khaganate
Uyghur Khaganate 𐱃𐰆𐰴𐰕:𐰆𐰍𐰕:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣 Toquz Oɣuz Budun | |||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||||
| 800 | 3,100,000 km2 (1,200,000 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
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Bögü Qaghan, third khagan of the Uyghurs, in a suit of armour, converting to Manicheism in 762. | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 回鶻 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 回鹘 | ||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 回紇 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 回纥 | ||||||||
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| The Nine Tribes | |||||||||
| Chinese | 九姓 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Nine Surnames | ||||||||
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| Old Turkic | 𐱃𐰆𐰴𐰕:𐰆𐰍𐰕:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣 Toquz Oɣuz Budun "People of the Nine Tribes" | ||||||||
The Uyghur Khaganate, Khanate, or Empire, self defined as the Toquz Oghuz ("Nine Tribes") and known to the Tang Chinese as the Jiuxing was a Turkic empire that existed for about a century between the mid 8th and 9th centuries. It was a tribal confederation under the Uyghur nobility.