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The unbiased and concise encyclopedia for the history of the ancient and early medieval Turkic peoples, their culture and their surroundings. From the Xiongnu to the Göktürks and from the Uyghurs to the Khazars, the Turkic Atlas covers everything you ever wanted to know about these legendary steppe warriors. All articles have been carefully curated. Still a work-in-progress with regular updates.
𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰: 𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃𐰾𐰃: 𐱅𐰇𐰺𐰰: 𐰃𐰑𐰸: 𐰘𐰃𐰼𐰃: 𐰽𐰆𐰉𐰃: 𐰨𐰀: 𐱅𐰢𐰾: 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰: 𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣: 𐰖𐰆𐰸: 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰢𐰕𐰆𐰣: 𐱅𐰃𐰘𐰤: 𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣: 𐰉𐰆𐰞𐰲𐰆𐰣: 𐱅𐰃𐰘𐰤:
türk teŋrisi türk ıduq yeri subı ança temiş: türk bodun yok bolmazun teyin, bodun bolçun teyin
The Türk Heaven above, and the holy Earth and Water of the Türk, spoke thus: Let the Türk people not perish. Let them be a people again.
Five centuries at a glance
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- Rouran 400–554
- First Göktürk 552–630
- Tang rule 630–682
- Second Göktürk 682–744
- Uyghur 744–840
- Kirghiz 840–924
- Western Göktürk 552–659
- Türgesh 699–766
- Karluk 766–800
- Khazar 650–969
The realms of the eastern steppe from the Rouran to the Kirghiz on the first lane; below them the western Göktürk, the Türgesh and the Karluks, and the Khazars on the third lane; every band, and every name in the line beneath, opens the realm's article. A band opens the realm; the year pages set the steppe, China, Persia and Byzantium side by side. Begin with 552 →
Reading paths
All paths →- The Turkic War of Independence in seven articles From a raid on the Chinese frontier to the taking of Ötüken, 542 to 552 7 articles
- The house of Bumin Five rulers and one assembly, 552 to 581 7 articles
- What the Göktürk believed Sky, fortune, law, assembly and the sacred forest 6 articles
- The Rouran, from the other side The empire the Göktürk overthrew, told as its own story 6 articles
- Names, titles and claims What the words mean and who says so 4 articles
- The civil war and the west How one khaganate became two, and what the western one became 10 articles