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The Uyghur Khaganate (also Uyghur Empire or Uighur Khaganate, ... Asimov, M.S. (1998), History of civilizations of Central Asia Volume IV The age of achievement: ...
The history of the Uyghur people extends over more than two millennia and can be divided into four distinct phases: Pre-Imperial (300 BC – AD 630), Imperial (AD 630–840), Idiqut (AD 840–1200), and Mongol (AD 1209–1600), with perhaps a fifth modern phase running from the death of the Silk Road in AD 1600 until the present.
This timeline is a supplement of the main article Uyghur. Dealing with the centuries between 400 and 900 AD, it refers to a critical period in the cultural formation of the Uyghur nation, as they transitioned from a minor Turkic tribe to the Uyghur Khaganate.
Ordu-Baliq [dn 1] (meaning "city of the court", "city of the army"; Mongolian: Хар Балгас, Chinese: 窩魯朵八里), also known as Mubalik and Karabalghasun, was the capital of the Uyghur Khaganate. It was built on the site of the former Göktürk imperial capital, 27 km north-to-northwest of the later Mongol capital, Karakorum.
The Song recognized the Ganzhou Uyghurs, as well as the Qarakhanids and the Qocho Uyghurs, as the collective descendants of the former Uyghur Khaganate. [12] Arab sources, for example the account of Arab traveller Abū Dulaf (which may have been based on other sources of the period), seems to have referred to the Ganzhou Uyghur Kingdom as "China".
It was founded by refugees fleeing the destruction of the Uyghur Khaganate after being driven out by the Yenisei Kirghiz. They made their winter capital in Qocho (also called Gaochang or Qara-Khoja , near modern Turpan ) and summer capital in Beshbalik (modern Jimsar County , also known as Tingzhou). [ 10 ]
Kutlug Bilge Qaghan (?–747), the first leader of the Uyghur Khaganate, the successor state to the Second Turkic Khaganate; Bayanchur Qaghan (713–759), the second leader of the Uyghur Khaganate; Bogu Qaghan (?–780), the third leader of the Uyghur Khaganate; Tun Baga Tarkhan (born c. 737–742; died 789), the fourth leader of the Uyghur ...
The history of the Kara-Khanid Khanate is reconstructed from fragmentary and often contradictory written sources, ... Uyghur Khaganate 744–840; Oghuz Yabgu State ...