Atlas · Plate XXVII

The end of the Rouran

555

Map of Asia in 555: the Göktürk Khaganate reaching Lake Balkhash, the Qi campaign to Huaishuo and Woye against the last Rouran, the killing of the Rouran at the Qingmen gate of Chang'an, and the frontier zone between the Göktürks and China

555: The Qi emperor leaves his baggage at Baidao and breaks the Rouran at Huaishuo and at Woye with 5,000 light horse. He takes more than 20,000 people. At Chang'an the Western Wei hand Dengshuzi and some 3,000 Rouran to Mukan's envoys, who kill them outside the Qingmen gate. In the west Istemi reaches Lake Balkhash, by one reckoning. Modern map. The roads are drawn.

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