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Turkic Empires: The Rise and Fall 6-13 centuries

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CONTENT

  • The formation of Turks
  • Division and existence of two Turkic Empires
  • The rise of tribal chieftains
  • The Karakhanids
  • Culture of Turks
  • Conclusion

Ethnonym Turk

  • “Turk”, “Turkit”, “Tu-chueh”
  • V.Bartol’d, A.Kononov «Turk» = “strong man”
  • L.N. Gumilev “Gok Turk el” = blue Turks

Ethnonym Turk

  • Territory: Mongolia and Altai
  • Ashina as a founder of Kok Turks
  • 552 -553 – qaghan Bumin
  • 553-575 – qaghan Istami
  • 603 – the division into two qaghanates

The formation of the Turkic qaghanate

The Conquest of Central Asia and Western Turkic Qaghanate

The Conquest

Timeline

555 CE

603-704 CE

Western Turkic qaghanate and people of ten arrows

Turkic-Iranian union against Hephtalites

Timeline

552-555 CE

567 CE

618-630 CE

Istami in Semireche

Ton-jabghu qaghan

Diplomatic relations with Byzantine

Center was Suyab (present Burana district, Chui region)

Turgesh dynasty (704-766)

Turgesh dynasty

  • Black and yellow turgesh tribes
  • Territory: Ili and Chu
  • 704-706 – founder of the power Uch-elik qaghan
  • 706-711 – Sakal qaghan against China, Eastern Turkic qaghanate and Arabs
  • 710-triple union of Turgesh, China and Kyrgyz against Eastern Turkic qaghanate
  • 716-738 - Chybyshchor Suluk qaghan against Arabs

Qarluk dynasty (738-893)

Qarluk

dynasty

  • V.Bartold - origin from Uighurs
  • Chigil, tashlyk and bulak
  • 744 – the fall of the Eastern Turkic qaghanate
  • 746 – Karluks came to Semireche
  • 751 – Talas battle: Karluks and Arabs against China

Chinese-Arabic

Talas

Battle of 751

Chinese-Arabic Talas Battle of 751

Karakhanids noble people

Adoption of Islam in 10 th century

Architecture Burana,

Uzgen Literacy Balasagyn, Kashgari

Karakhanid dynasty

The System of Ruling

Social Structure

  • Inheritance from brother to brother, father to the son
  • Division of qaghanates for principalities

The System of Ruling

Qaghan

Jabghu/tegin

Sad/Beg

Economy

Economy

  • Pastoral Nomadism in its vertical and horizontal migrations
  • Agriculture – in the valleys: barley, wheat, oat
  • Trade - the Silk Road
  • Trade cities on the territory of KR:
  • Nevaket (present Krasnaya Rechka, Chui oblast)
  • Suyab (present Tokmok area)
  • Uzgen, Osh

Funerals of Turks

Culture

Balbals and the purpose of their creation?

Extended family

Nuclear family

the equal role of women

social division

tribe and kinship

Social life

Turkic culture NOW

Turkic culture now

Conclusion

Conclusion

  • The root of Turks has been preserved in the languages of over 170mln.people in Asia, Europe, Russia and China

  • Turks are the ancestors of the Kyrgyz .The Legacy of Turks in architecture, literature and traditions of Kyrgyz people and Kyrgyzstan

Bibliography

Bibliography

  • Soucek, Svat. A History of Inner Asia, pp. 51-70.
  • Barfield, Tomas.The Nomadic Alternative (Englwood Cliffs, 1993), pp.136-158.
  • Primary source: Turkic inscriptions about the Second Eastern Turkic Kaghanate at: www.turkicworld.org.
  • www.silkroad.org/maps

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