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Articles

Places 120

new Karashahr
new Shanyu Protectorate brief
new Anxi Protectorate
new Kesh
new Anbei Protectorate brief
new Kashgar
new Jiaohe
new Egiin Gol
new Yarkand brief
new Luntai brief
new Ivolga brief
new Quli brief
revised Huo
revised Ötüken
revised Bukhara
revised Cave of the ancestors
revised Tarim Basin
revised Shiveet Ulaan
revised Berel
revised Gurgan
revised Kemijkat brief
revised Xihai
revised Yingsuo brief
revised Aquileia
revised Dzungaria
revised Herat
revised Noin Ula
revised Sarkel
revised Sogdiana
revised Thousand Springs
revised Tuz Köl of the Karluks brief
revised Chuzhe River brief
revised Derbent
revised Eyang Ridge brief
revised Gol Mod
revised Iron Mountain
revised Itil
revised Jian River brief
revised Khotan
revised Kögmen
revised Kucha
revised Loulan
revised Naissus
revised Ordos
revised Paikent
revised Pliska brief
revised Samandar brief
revised Sanmi Mountain brief
revised Volga
revised Amga Korgan brief
revised Bactria brief
revised Baidao Plain
revised Balanjar brief
revised Bay Balïq
revised Cherson
revised Dingxiang
revised Dunhuang
revised Ektag
revised Gaochang
revised Ikar brief
revised Khöshöö Tsaidam
revised Kujie Valley brief
revised Lingzhou
revised Margus
revised Orkhon valley
revised Oxus brief
revised Partaw
revised Pingliang
revised Samarkand
revised Gate of Sul
revised Suyab
revised Talas
revised Tamatarkha brief
revised Viminacium
revised Wulei brief
revised Yinshan
revised Yiwu
revised Yulin
revised Afu River brief
revised Aksu
revised Altai
revised Argu brief
revised Badghis brief
revised Balasaghun brief
revised Beihai brief
revised Beiting
revised Bodeng Ningli brief
revised Bosporos
revised Chach
revised Dali City brief
revised Ferghana
revised Hebei
revised Iron Gate brief
revised Issyk-Kul
revised Jade Gate
revised Jin River brief
revised Jiuquan
revised Khorasan
revised Khorezm brief
revised Lake Sevan brief
revised Liaohai brief
revised Luoyang brief
revised Merv brief
revised Minusinsk Basin brief
revised Mount Jiansi Chuzheshi brief
revised Mumocheng
revised Ordu-Balık
revised Panjikent
revised Shuozhou brief
revised Syr Darya brief
revised Tian Shan brief
revised Tiflis
revised Togu Balık brief
revised Tola brief
revised Wuwei brief
revised Xiazhou
revised Zhao Xin City
revised Youzhou
revised Zhoupan brief
revised Yunzhong

Peoples 76

revised Alchon Huns
revised Hephthalites
revised History of the Turkic peoples
revised Nezak Shahs
revised Turkic Tribes in Europe
revised Sogdians
revised Rouran
revised Dubo
revised Onogurs
revised Az
revised Eurasian Nomads
revised Tashtyk Culture
revised Yueban
revised Jie brief
revised Kabars
revised Kurykan
revised Ogurs
revised Sabirs
revised Utigurs
revised Xianbei
revised Yenisei Kirghiz
revised Akatziri
revised Chik
revised Donghu
revised Saka
revised Sarmatians
revised Shiwei
revised Tatars
revised Göktürks
revised Wusun
revised Amilzuri brief
revised Boisci brief
revised The Great Empires of the Steppe
revised Huns
revised Kyshtym
revised Toquz Oghuz
revised Tuoba brief
revised Yuezhi
revised Alans
revised Angisciri brief
revised Avars
revised Bittugures brief
revised Bulgars brief
revised Cimmerians brief
revised Kidarites
revised Kutrigurs
revised Saragurs brief
revised Scythians
revised Sorosgi brief
revised Tarniach brief
revised Wuhuan
revised Basmïl
revised Bayirku
revised Bugu brief
revised Dingling
revised Ediz brief
revised Furi
revised Gepids brief
revised Itimari brief
revised Kangju
revised Karluk
revised Khalaj brief
revised Khitan
revised Kimek brief
revised Kipchak brief
revised Kotzager brief
revised Oghuz brief
revised On Oq
revised Pechenegs brief
revised Tiele
revised Tounsoures brief
revised Tukhsi brief
revised Türgesh
revised Ultzinzures brief
revised Uyghurs
revised Zabender brief

Lineages 5

revised Ashina
revised Luandi
revised Murong
revised Ashide
revised Yujiulü

Institutions and Titles 128

new The Economy of the Steppe Empires
new Salt among the Turkic Peoples
new Roof Tiles of the Uyghur Khaganate
new Bride-Price in Livestock
new Han Military Farms in the Western Regions
new Furs and Musk among the Turkic Peoples
new Metals and Metalworking in Kashgari's Dictionary
new Towns and Villages of the Turks in the Hudud al-ʿĀlam
new Bone and Horn Working
new Wood and Woodworking
new Han Bestowals on the Chanyu
new Livestock Raids
new Xiongnu Herds
new Sheep
new Hunnic Cauldrons
new Kirghiz Iron and Gold
new Camels
new Felt, Cloth, Leather and Wood in Kashgari's Dictionary
new Craftsmen in the Steppe Empires
new Horses in Göktürk Law
new Farming and Taxes in Gaochang
new Seasonal Pastures
new Avar Craftsmen
new Lacquerware
new Gold of the Xiongnu Court
new Xiongnu Ironworking
new Bloomery Furnaces of the South Altai
new Bronze Mirrors of the Steppe
new Gold and Silver Vessels as Tang Gifts to the Uyghurs
new Oghuz Herds in Ibn Fadlan's Account
new The Iron Oath
new Livestock in the Hudud al-Alam
new Xiongnu Pottery
new Chinese Weaponsmiths among the Xianbei brief
new Farming among the Volga Bulgars
new Khazar Mail and the Armourers of the Caucasus brief
new Hunnic Diadems brief
new Iron of the Bayegu brief
revised Khan (Khagan)
revised Kut
revised Tutuk
revised Women among the Turkic Peoples
revised Heqin
revised Tuğ
revised Aco brief
revised Skull Cup
revised Wagons of the Steppe Peoples
revised Uyghur Horse-Silk Trade
revised Border Markets
revised Captives and the Unfree
revised Chepetukh
revised Çigşi brief
revised Composite bow
revised Göktürk Ironworking
revised Horse harness
revised Coinage of the Huna Peoples brief
revised Loose-rein prefectures
revised Silk in the Steppe
revised Worthy Kings of the Left and Right
revised Chinese Craftsmen at the Orkhon Monuments
revised Diplomacy of the Steppe Empires
revised Felt brief
revised Gold and Silver in the Orkhon Inscriptions
revised Ilteber
revised Khazar Customs and Tribute
revised Kunçuy brief
revised Sabao
revised Post and Communication
revised Shad
revised Tölis and Tardush
revised Trade Routes of the Steppe
revised Toy
revised Türgesh and Karluk Coinage
revised The twelve-year animal cycle
revised Uyghur Farming
revised Yabgu
revised Army of the Steppe Empires
revised Baga
revised Baghatur brief
revised Beg
revised Göktürk Weapons
revised Chinese Bans on the Export of Iron
revised Khazar Dual Kingship
revised Külüg Chur brief
revised Levirate
revised Livestock Losses in the Annals
revised Ordu
revised Tamga brief
revised Terken brief
revised Tongpu Duwei
revised Tribute Missions and Bestowals
revised Xiongnu Agriculture
revised Apa Tarkan brief
revised Baidie Cotton
revised Böri (Guard) brief
revised Bukhar Khuda brief
revised Buyruk
revised Chanyu
revised Chur
revised Daguan brief
revised Deer stones brief
revised Drums and Banners for the Khans
revised Envoys and Embassies
revised Ghulam brief
revised Göktürk Dress and Hair
revised The Göktürk Oath
revised Honour of Death in Battle brief
revised Illig brief
revised Inal brief
revised Irkin
revised Ishbara (Title)
revised Katun
revised Kül Tegin's Horses
revised Kurgan brief
revised Lesser Khan brief
revised Logades brief
revised Ordos bronzes brief
revised Raw Materials and Trade among the Turkic Peoples
revised Saŋun brief
revised Sifa brief
revised Tally Sticks and the Golden Arrow
revised Tarkhan
revised Tegin
revised Töre
revised Tudun
revised The Twenty-Eight Ranks
revised Warfare of the Steppe Empires
revised Yi Khan brief

Religions 47

Languages 11

revised The Old Turkic script
revised Old Turkic
revised Oghur Turkic
revised The Sogdian language
revised Chinese transcriptions of Turkic
revised The Khazar language
revised Old Uyghur
revised Oghuz and Kipchak speech in Kashgari
revised The Turkic languages
revised The Hunnic language
revised The Khalaj language

Foods 11

revised Kumys
revised Millet
revised Ayran
revised Kamos brief
revised Qurut
revised Grape Wine in Central Asia
revised Millet Beer
revised Steppe Diet
revised Tea among the Uyghurs
revised Bread
revised Tutmaç

Customs & Pastimes 22

revised Er At
revised The Three Xiongnu Assemblies
revised Culture of the Turkic Peoples
revised Hunting among the Göktürks
revised Knucklebones brief
revised Turkic Songs at the Tang Court
revised Wooden Horses
revised The Chile Song
revised Stakes and Wagers
revised The Battue
revised Feasts in Kashgari's Dictionary
revised Funeral Games of the Caucasian Huns
revised The Gaoche Wedding
revised The Göktürk Feast
revised Göktürk Games
revised Kirghiz Entertainments
revised Mounted Archery
revised The New Year on the Steppe
revised Seating at the Feast
revised Wuhuan Funeral Songs
revised The Xianbei Spring Assembly
revised Horse and Camel Races at the Xiongnu Sacrifices

Sources 86

revised Kül Tegin inscription
revised Altın Köl Inscriptions
revised Tariat inscription
revised Tonyukuk inscription
revised Bilge Khan's Golden Crown
revised Theophylact Simocatta
revised Han Shu
revised The Khazar correspondence
revised Hou Han Shu
revised Irk Bitig
revised Jordanes
revised Ongi inscription
revised The Schechter letter
revised Sui Shu (Book of Sui)
revised Tomb of Shi Jun
revised al-Iṣṭakhrī
revised Murfatlar inscriptions
revised Narshakhī, History of Bukhara
revised Sebeos
revised Talas and Tian Shan runiform inscriptions
revised Sogdian inscriptions of the upper Indus
revised Begre inscription (E 11)
revised De administrando imperio
revised Dīvān Lughāt al-Turk
revised Kartlis Tskhovreba
revised Küli Čor inscription
revised Menander Protector
revised Nalaikh Inscription
revised Old Tibetan report on the northern kings
revised Russian Primary Chronicle
revised Szarvas needle case inscription brief
revised Tabari
revised Theophanes of Byzantium
revised Wei Shu
revised Altai runiform inscriptions
revised Record of the Western Regions
revised Hoyto Tamir inscriptions
revised Liang Shu
revised Movsēs Dasxurancʿi
revised Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós
revised Shahnameh
revised Suji inscription
revised Tongdian
revised Zizhi tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance)
revised al-Masʿūdī
revised aṯ-Ṯaʿālibī
revised Cefu yuangui
revised Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam
revised Ibn Rusta
revised Jabogan inscription brief
revised John of Ephesus
revised Kutadgu Bilig
revised Procopius
revised Protobulgarian sign corpus
revised Sogdian Ancient Letters
revised Tes inscription brief
revised Theophanes the Confessor
revised Yenisei inscriptions
revised Zhou Shu (Book of Zhou)
revised Afrasiab paintings
revised Ammianus Marcellinus
revised Bei Qi Shu (Book of Northern Qi)
revised Bilge Khan inscription
revised Bugut inscription
revised Gardīzī (Zayn al-akhbār) brief
revised Ibn Fadlan
revised Issyk inscription
revised Karabalghasun inscription
revised Runiform inscriptions of the Khazar lands
revised Li Deyu's Letters to the Kirghiz brief
revised Life of Xuanzang
revised Marvazī (Ṭabāʾiʿ al-ḥayawān) brief
revised Rock inscriptions found in Mongolia, 2018 to 2021
revised Runiform finds in Mongolia, 1990 to 1999
revised Priscus
revised Shiji
revised Šine-Usu inscription
revised Song Shu
revised South Yenisei inscriptions brief
revised Sogdian inscriptions of the Talas valley brief
revised Tomb of An Jia brief
revised Tomb of Kang Ye brief
revised Tomb of Yu Hong brief
revised Ulaangom inscription brief
revised Xin Tangshu (New Book of Tang)
revised Yuefu Shiji (Collection of Yuefu Songs) brief

Controversies 20

revised The Göktürks and the Xiongnu
revised The origin of the Avars
revised The language of the Xiongnu
revised The Huns and the Xiongnu
revised The origin of the Old Turkic script
revised The Turkic ethnogenesis debate
revised The Khakas name debate
revised The making of Tengrism
revised The origin of the title Khan
revised The steppe before the Xiongnu
revised Xiongnu: Making the First Steppe Empire
revised The Kirghiz descent from Li Ling
revised Archaeogenetics of the Steppe Empires
revised The Khazar–Ashkenazi hypothesis
revised The Turkish–Korean friendship narrative
revised The Bökli question
revised Climate and the steppe empires
revised The Kirghiz origin debate brief
revised Turkic-Sogdian Synthesis brief
revised The Yenisei Kirghiz and the Kyrgyz brief

Build 1.0 Open to all

The Turkic Atlas is open to all: every article in English and Turkish, many also in German and Japanese
An account for the suggestion book: confirm your address once, then sign in with a password
Atlas Progress: what is here now and what comes next
Picture cards on the category pages, and the channels of Khan's Den at the foot of every page
Uzbek, Kazakh and Kyrgyz in a basic edition, and ten new maps in the Atlas, from 699 to 842, among them the rise of the Uyghurs in 744
76 new articles on raw materials, production and trade: salt, iron and gold, herds, farming and oasis towns, silk, coinage and crafts
Start here: four themes with an overview each, the great empires, the economy, culture and Turkic cosmology
New articles on the Alchon and Nezak, the Turk Shahi and the yabgus of Tokharistan, army and warfare with diagrams, women, diplomacy and envoys, trade routes, archaeology and Turkic languages

Build 15.5 History of the Turkic Peoples 0 new · 25 revised

A new overview article: the history of the Turkic peoples from the early steppe to the Khazars and the Kyrgyz, with pictures, maps and a timeline
A globe for the languages, and the radio plays only when you start it
Yolluk, your guide, now has a page of his own
The home page counts down to the opening of the full atlas
Easier to use with the keyboard and with screen readers

Articles

Persons 11

revised al-Jarrah ibn Abdallah brief
revised Tzitzak brief
revised Barjik brief
revised Marwan ibn Muhammad brief
revised Buluzhen Khan
revised Alp Inanch brief
revised Ildico brief
revised Nagai Khan
revised Poluomen Khan
revised Right Shad (d. 741)
revised Yiran Khan

Conflicts 3

revised Arab–Khazar Wars (642–737)
revised The revolt of the subject peoples, 714–716
revised The Zhou–Qi war, 557–577

Battles & Events 3

Places 2

revised Beshbalik
revised Yanmen

Peoples 1

revised Boma

Lineages 1

revised Are brief

Institutions and Titles 1

revised Idi brief

Sources 3

revised al-Balādhurī brief
revised The Kievian letter
revised Mount Mugh documents brief

Build 15.4 The Khazars

32 new articles on the Khazars: their capitals Itil and Samandar, the fortress of Sarkel, the wars with the Arabs, the conversion of the court to Judaism, the Khazar letters and the fall of the khaganate
Yolluk, a young guide from the steppe, now shows you the way through the atlas
A shorter home page: three reading paths, the newest additions next to the Atlas, and the journey through time on the map page
New in the Atlas opens with the Khazars, shown with a miniature, a manuscript and a coin of their time

Hotfix 9.6.1–9.6.4 Features 4

Features

Changed the shimmer of Kut around the portraits of Bumin Khan and Istemi: luminous streams with bright cores and fine threads now flow around the stone frame, with rising wisps and sparks, in place of the soft glow.
Fixed labels on the moving map of the Rouran and the Göktürks that covered one another: Khosrow I now stands at the start of his march instead of on Balkh and Nasaf, and in the Japanese version the name of the Rouran no longer runs into Ötüken.
Fixed the opening at the start of a visit: a click, a key or a scroll ends it at once, even while the page is still loading.
Fixed the previews of links: if their data failed to load once, no preview appeared until the page was reloaded. They now load again on the next try.

Hotfix 15.3.3 Features 1

Features

The preview page and the Vanguard page now count down to the new opening time of the Atlas.

Hotfix 15.3.1–15.3.2 Features 2

Features

Tidied What's new and its feed: builds and hotfixes now stand in order, newest first.
Revised the captions of two images and the file names of the radio tracks.

Build 15.3 The Early Turks 0 new · 63 revised

Six new maps of the early Turkic peoples of Europe, from the Hunnic raid of 395 to the Pontic steppe under the Göktürks in 576
Every article in the atlas is now open in English and Turkish, including all 85 articles on peoples
Search, all reading paths, the inscriptions, the glossary, the name index and every other page in the menu are now open
New header images on the inscriptions, the glossary, the name index and the other overview pages
Battles and events carry a background image of their time or place

Articles

Battles & Events 22

revised Music of Empress Ashina (568)
revised The Woye and Luoyang Campaign (564)
revised The Uyghur Demand for the Prince's Dance (762)
revised Battle of the Iron Mountain (630)
revised Raid on Yanmen (621)
revised Sui Variety Shows for Yami Khan (606–610)
revised The Göktürk Campaign of 625
revised Ilig Khan's Dance at the Weiyang Palace (633)
revised Rescue of Princess Taihe (840–843)
revised Taizong's Speech on the Signs of Ruin (628)
revised The Archery Match at the Wu'an Hall (599)
revised Assembly at Mount Yanzhi (609)
revised The Göktürk–Zhou alliance
revised Li Chengqian's Göktürk Camp
revised The Qingmen Executions (555)
revised Defeat of the Tiele, 546
revised The coup of 716
revised Defection of Töles (628)
revised Murder of Shishu Huxi
revised The Great Sacrifice of the Gaoche
revised Mukan's Destruction of Dengshuzi (553–555) brief
revised The capture of Samarkand, 712 brief

Peoples 15

revised Goths brief
revised Heichezi
revised Hu brief
revised Tongra brief
revised Tuyuhun brief
revised Abusi brief
revised Bardores brief
revised Chumukun brief
revised Gulun Wugu brief
revised Hun (Tiele tribe) brief
revised Nushibi brief
revised Qibi brief
revised Vandals brief
revised Shatuo brief
revised Sijie brief

Institutions and Titles 17

revised Atabeg
revised Great Khan
revised The Western and Southern Khans brief
revised Daluobian brief
revised Six Garrisons brief
revised Taisan brief
revised Yanhongda brief
revised Anchan Juni brief
revised Fulin Khan brief
revised Funi Rehan brief
revised Geli Daguan brief
revised Helan Suni Que brief
revised Keluo Chuo brief
revised Suoge Tudun brief
revised Yinghefu brief
revised Chakar brief
revised Dihqan brief

Sources 9

revised Bei Shi (History of the Northern Dynasties)
revised Nikephoros
revised Jiu Tangshu (Old Book of Tang)
revised Nan Qi Shu
revised Nan Shi
revised Sanguozhi brief
revised Fengshi Wenjian Ji brief
revised Tang Huiyao (Institutional History of the Tang) brief
revised Tomb of Princess Linhe brief

Hotfix 15.2.1–15.2.2 Features 2

Features

Fixed the Turkish narration of the Bumin Khan article, which began with the English recording; the intro now shows the Yavuz Arts and Khan's Den marks, and on the preview page the countdown is smaller, with the Enter button right below it.
Added the commentary on the Orkhon inscriptions in all five languages, Turkish versions of 72 articles on peoples, and ten inscription articles in all languages.

Build 15.2 Audio Narration Update

Listen to the Bumin Khan article, read by a narrator, in English and Turkish
Narrated articles carry a larger listen button that glows in Kut green

Build 15.1 Line by Line 0 new · 3 revised

27 new articles in five languages: runic inscriptions from the Altai, the Yenisei, Mongolia and Talas to the Danube, Duoxifu, five titles and post and communication among the Göktürks
The Orkhon inscriptions now stand once, in their place in the article, line by line: original, translation and commentary
The east face of the Kül Tegin inscription with commentary on its terms, places and events
New maps: 554, 555, 557 and 558, from the end of the Rouran to the Avars at Constantinople
All maps of the Atlas in HD
Approximate dates are marked as such in the fact boxes
In the preview, locked pages carry a lock and lead you back to the open articles
Links keep your language, and an English fallback is marked EN
The first reading path sits right under the introduction, and long tables of contents fold away
The Yavuz Arts and Khan's Den marks in the footer now lead to their sites

Articles

Persons 2

revised Junchen Chanyu
revised Yucheng Khan

Conflicts 1

revised The Rouran–Wei wars, 402–449

Build 15.0 The New Atlas 1 new · 2 revised

All 40 maps of the Atlas redrawn in a new parchment style, in English, Turkish and German
The whole Atlas is now open, sorted into six eras so you can browse it easily
The Orkhon inscriptions in full: runes and translation side by side, line by line
The Tonyukuk and Bilge Khan inscriptions now open in five languages
Photographs of the stones above each Orkhon inscription
In the inscriptions, türk is translated as Turks, and Göktürk stands only where the stone says kök türk
88 studies on the inscriptions and the runic script worked into about 90 articles, with hundreds of new references
Corrections to the Tonyukuk, Kül Tegin, Bilge Khan, Tariat, Ongi, Bugut and Yenisei inscriptions from the new literature
The Avars and the Rouran: the Avar articles revised, and a new article on the debate over the origin of the Avars in five languages
New maps: the Tang conquest of the Tarim in 648, the risings of 679–681 and the rising of Ilterish in 682
The Kut energy around the portraits of Bumin and Istemi now glows green
On phones, the inscription pages open straight with the text

Articles

Persons 1

revised Pei Xingjian

Lineages 1

revised Yaglakar brief

Sources 1

new Epitaph of Qarï Čor Tegin (Xi'an) brief

Build 14.5 The Sources Speak 0 new · 39 revised

The sources themselves, original and translation side by side, in 133 passages from 33 sources
All persons now open in English and Turkish
A glowing green progress bar on the countdown page

Articles

Persons 39

revised Emperor Wuzong of Tang
revised Shi Xiong
revised Su Dingfang
revised Ta-bu-he-zu
revised Yushe Shad
revised Gao Kan
revised Li Ye (Tang envoy) brief
revised Tatik Iznanchu
revised Wen-wu Alp
revised Zhishi Sili
revised Chiji Shad brief
revised Diqincha brief
revised Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou brief
revised Emperor Wucheng of Northern Qi brief
revised Faghfura brief
revised Külüg Bagha
revised Zhang Renyuan
revised Buli Shad brief
revised Daxi Wu brief
revised Dusuliu brief
revised Hezhi Khan brief
revised Hulü Guang brief
revised Lijicha brief
revised Rehan Tegin brief
revised Sijie Irkin brief
revised Yinnai Tegin brief
revised Yintou Tegin brief
revised Yuwen Hu brief
revised Aoshe Shad brief
revised Ashide Wumo Chur brief
revised Dēwāštīč brief
revised Dieluozhi brief
revised Du-lü-shi Alp brief
revised Nanai-vandak brief
revised Suopi Shad brief
revised Zhenzhu Tong Irkin brief
revised Nasr ibn Sayyar brief
revised Pan Die brief
revised Sebüktegin brief

Build 14.4 Places of the Steppe 0 new · 19 revised

All places now open in English and Turkish
The countdown page shows how many articles you can read in English and in Turkish
A more compact article header, so the contents come into view sooner
New photographs of the Tonyukuk monument and the Orkhon stones in The Rebirth of the Göktürks

Articles

Places 19

revised Mayi
revised Tanhan Mountain
revised Mount Mulai brief
revised Heng'an
revised Huaihuang
revised Mount Dajin brief
revised Qikou brief
revised Dujin Garrison brief
revised Gouzhu Pass brief
revised Jingyang brief
revised Jinyang brief
revised Xing Ridge brief
revised Zihe Garrison brief
revised Balkh brief
revised Beilou Pass brief
revised Chang'an brief
revised Taren River brief
revised Transoxiana brief
revised Woye brief

Build 14.3 States and Wars 0 new · 3 revised

All states and wars now open in English and Turkish, 22 of them with new literature
Four new articles: the Ongi and Küli Çor inscriptions, Noin Ula and the origin of the title khan
The customs now also in Turkish

Articles

States 3

revised Former Yan brief
revised Xiongnu Han brief
revised Later Han brief

Build 14.2 The Turkish Pages

The new literature of the last build now also in the Turkish version of 170 articles

Build 14.1 New Sources 0 new · 24 revised

Support banner for the GoFundMe campaign on every new visit, in five languages
Relations with other states now move: curved lines, pulsing wars, trade in gold, and a play button
Getting Started now has six paths, with the fall of the Göktürks and their rebirth in the Second Khaganate
42 newly acquired works read and worked into 170 articles, among them Taşağıl, Pelliot, Tekin, Orkun and Pulleyblank
New maps in the Atlas: the Caucasus campaign of 627 and the murder of Tong Yabgu in 628

Articles

Persons 4

revised Chunyu Tan brief
revised Jin Midi
revised Princess Linhe
revised Tahan brief

States 8

revised Buyeo
revised The Abbasid Caliphate
revised Eastern Wei
revised Later Yan brief
revised Kimek Khaganate brief
revised Later Jin brief
revised Later Tang brief
revised Pecheneg Confederation brief

Conflicts 2

revised The Göktürk–Sui wars, 582–603
revised Revolt of the Six Garrisons

Lineages 5

revised Fufuluo brief
revised Qifu brief
revised Duan brief
revised Yuwen brief
revised Tufa brief

Religions 1

revised Dochia brief

Customs & Pastimes 4

revised Falconry brief
revised Wrestling brief
revised Fourteen (Köčürmä Oyun) brief
revised Polo brief

Hotfix 14.0.1–14.0.5 Features 5

Features

The card for the Göktürks and the Xiongnu under New in the Atlas shows Bagatur and Bumin side by side.
Fixed the Xiongnu article to cite Minyaev in a footnote instead of the running text.
Fixed secondary authors named in the running text of the Tengrism article, the Rouran name for themselves, notes on the state of research in four articles, and the account of Xunniyan in the Murong article.
Fixed the spelling of Priscus in the Turkish and German versions, notes on the state of research in the details of several source articles, and the emperor’s answer in the Wusun article.
Fixed errors found in the new literature and checked against the sources: the golden men of the Xiutu king, the year of Bilge Khan’s death, Huoba Ilteber’s kinship with Kapgan, several readings of the Orkhon inscriptions and the dating of the Bugut inscription.

Build 14.0 Getting Started

Getting Started with Turkic history on the home page: the steppe empires at a glance and five paths for readers new to the subject, each step with a map or a picture and three things to remember
A floating guide on the home page leads straight to the five paths
New article: the Göktürks and the Xiongnu, their likenesses and the positions on whether the Ashina came out of the Xiongnu
Five new articles on the Silk Road: the Jade Gate, the kingdom of Shanshan, Pei Ju, Wei Jie and grape wine
Nine classic studies of the steppe and the Silk Road worked into 117 articles, among them the archaeology of the Huns and the Uyghur donor paintings of Bezeklik
New maps in the Atlas: the Mayi ambush of 133 BC and the Ashina in the Altai about 460
Larger headings in gold on the home page, the category pages and Myth and Belief

Hotfix 13.5.5–13.5.8 Features 4

Features

Fixed the article on the Mayi ambush and the article on the Kül Tegin inscription, where a paragraph and a heading after a map were not rendered.
In the reading paths, the map of a ruler’s step stands on the right again, beside the portrait under the heading.
Removed the “Read on” box from the open pages.
The preview start page shows the moving banner again, with the countdown in the middle.

Hotfix 13.5.1–13.5.4 Features 4

Features

Fixed images and graphics in articles, which opened small when clicked. They now open full-screen at full resolution and can be zoomed and moved.
Fixed the article on the Hephthalites, which gave Wei Jie a verdict on their origin that is the Tongdian's own, and the article on the Tongdian, which knew only one of its two quotations from Wei Jie.
Added the tamga of the Yenisei Kirghiz above the information box of the Kirghiz Khaganate.
Reworked the maps of the Rouran Khaganate: the maps of the Rouran period stand in their sections, and the Rouran envoy beside the passage on the southern courts.

Build 13.5 The Xiongnu Age

Twenty-five new people of the Xiongnu age: every chanyu from Yizhixie to Fuzhulei and Bi, Zhonghang Yue, Wei Lü, Jin Midi, Su Wu, Li Ling, Wang Zhaojun, Wudi, Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Li Guangli, Dou Xian and Ban Chao
The Yuezhi, Donghu, Wuhuan, Dingling, Yueban, the Worthy Kings, the Five Divisions, the Kushan and the battle of Mobei written out in full
All articles on the Xiongnu age open to read in all five languages
The language of the Xiongnu with Anna Dybo's own findings: Turkic words prevail among the common nouns of the Han period
New on the home page: the latest articles at a glance, the Xiongnu age first, then Myth and Belief

Build 13.4 Myth and Belief

A theme page for the myths and beliefs of the steppe: all their articles in nine groups, open to read in five languages
Nineteen new articles, among them the Iye, the owner-spirits of places, waters and fire, Ülgen and Kayra Khan, the Altaian creation story, the horse sacrifice, the stone figures and Bilge Khan's golden crown
The Yenisei stones of Altın Köl, the Nalaikh text, the Pazyryk kurgans of Berel, scapulimancy and the yada stone of the weather-workers
Peri expanded, and Alara and Arçura as spirits of the later folk tradition
The Orkhon inscriptions read against Talât Tekin's grammar, with his readings set beside the others
Princess Taihe rewritten from twenty-three chapters of the Tang sources, Li Deyu's letters and Ennin's diary: the marriage of 821, her capture in 840, the debate at court and her return in 843
All articles on the Rouran and Princess Taihe are open to read in all five languages
Umay, Erklig, the Yer-Su spirits, Tengrism, the three worlds, the world tree and the balbals revised with fifteen Turkish studies and the classics of Siberian ethnography
Sogdian, Old Turkic, Manichaeism, Gaochang and the Uyghur Khaganate revised from new literature

Hotfix 13.3.7–13.3.11 Features 5

Features

Fixed the article on Tengrism, which called Ülgen the son of Kayra.
Fixed the raid of 542 in six articles: the Göktürks came every winter, the villagers stayed in their homes, and the raiders left livestock and baggage behind, not people.
Fixed the reading of the name of An Nuopantuo, which stood in two forms; it is now the Sogdian Anāhitā-banda everywhere.
Fixed the Japanese spelling of Kül Tegin in the articles on Umay and the Yer-Su spirits.
Fixed two page references in the footnotes of the article on Animism.

Hotfix 13.3.1–13.3.6 Features 6

Features

Fixed the article on Umay, which said she was named only once; the Tonyukuk inscription names her a second time.
Fixed the article on the Yer-Su spirits: in the Tonyukuk inscription Tengri, Umay and the sacred Earth-and-Water give victory together.
Fixed the Altaian creation story in the article on Tengrism: the first man dives for the earth, not the creator.
Fixed an incomplete sentence on the alliance with Feng Ba in the article on Datan Khan.
Fixed an incomplete sentence in the article on Tulun Khan.
Fixed an incomplete sentence on the rise of the Hephthalites in the article on Wuti Khan.

Build 13.3 Shamans and Spirits

New: Shamanism, the shamanism of the steppe from before the written record to the revival after 1991, as the foundation of Tengrism, with five diagrams and ten pictures
New: Animism, the spirits and owners of places, waters, fire and the dead, from the Göktürk sources to the ethnography of Siberia, with four diagrams and three pictures
Shamanism now stands first among the religions; the Kam belongs to Shamanism and Tengrism, and the Yenisei Kirghiz hold Tengrism and Shamanism
Shamanism and Animism are open to read in all five languages
Istemi's Journey to the West: a picture for every station that had none, from a Sasanian silver plate and a solidus of Justin II to Avar gold
Pictures for Merv, Balkh, Bactria, Transoxiana, the Oxus and the Tian Shan
The Taq Kasra at Ctesiphon in the trade conflict with Persia, an Avar belt ornament among the peoples of Europe, and two pages of a Shahnama of about 1299 for the Hephthalite war and the war of 588

Hotfix 13.2.1 Features 1

Features

Fixed the image of the Yenisei inscriptions in the banner of the home page, which stood without its focus point.

Build 13.2 The Steppe Empires

The infoboxes now carry footnotes: Bumin Khan, Istemi, Bagatur, the Xiongnu and the Göktürk, Uyghur and Khazar khaganates, and the infoboxes of all Turkic states
Religions and minority religions in the infoboxes of the states, from Danube Bulgaria and Qocho to the Karakhanids, each with its source
Open to read in all five languages: the twelve lineages, the Huns, the Gaoche, the Rouran, the Western Göktürks, the Xueyantuo, the Second Khaganate, the Türgesh and the Khazars
Open: the reading path Istemi's Journey to the West with all eight stations, and the page of the peoples as an overview
The table of states in the Atlas: ruling house, founder, capital, title and successor for fourteen more states, and the steppe before the Göktürks from the Cimmerians and Scythians to the Rouran
New lineages: the Fufuluo of the Gaoche and the Are of the Yenisei Kirghiz
Marcel Erdal's Grammar of Old Turkic: Old Turkic to the thirteenth century, the runic script, titles and terms checked
New literature: Sinor's Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia, Ecsedy, Bonmann and Fries, Müller, Thomsen, Drompp, Erkoç and Di Cosmo
New: the Old Tibetan report on the northern kings, the Khalaj, the tombs of Yu Hong and Kang Ye, and the Kirghiz envoys Alp Inanch and Li Jian
The religion of the Xiongnu, the origin myths of the Göktürks and the long drought of the Uyghur Khaganate
Istemi and Silziboulos, Bumin's father Tuwu and the silk trade before 545, the Western Wei embassy of 545 corrected
Larger, easier to read boxes in the first-steps tour

Hotfix 13.1.7–13.1.9 Features 3

Features

Fixed the count of characters in the Han Shu passage on the Luandi.
Fixed a sentence on the building of Sarkel in 838, which now names the Byzantines.
Fixed a reference to the list of khans in the article on the Yujiulü.

Hotfix 13.1.1–13.1.6 Features 6

Features

Fixed the names of the khans in the Uyghur Khaganate, now given in their Turkic form with the Chinese form in brackets.
Fixed a sentence on the Khazars and the Uyghurs: for the Uyghurs the choice of Manichaeism was political.
Fixed the account of the Western Wei embassy of 545, which claimed a trade relationship that the Zhou Shu does not record.
Fixed the yearly cost of supplying the Southern Chanyu, more than 100,900,000 copper coins according to the Hou Han Shu.
Fixed the name of the Rouran khan Tulun in the article on the Gaoche.
Fixed the spelling of the Luandi, the ruling house of the Xiongnu.

Build 13.1 The Kirghiz Khaganate

Relations with other states: every state with wars, alliances or trade now shows them as a network with a filter and a time slider, in three colours, red for war, blue for alliance, gold for trade, and for each neighbour what weighed most up to the chosen year
The opening page shows a hundred floating cards: pictures, passages from the articles in five languages, the portrait of Bumin Khan in his stone frame, the emblems of the states, the relations of the Göktürks and lines in the scripts of the old sources
The Yenisei Kirghiz Khaganate rewritten in full: the twenty years' war with the Uyghurs, the fall of Ordu-Balık in 840, the embassies to the Tang, the Kirghiz claim of descent from Li Ling, and why the Kirghiz did not stay on the Orkhon
The Kirghiz wrote in the Old Turkic runic script, a regional form of the script of the Orkhon stones, shown in a new article on the Yenisei inscriptions and in the articles on the Suji and Begre inscriptions
53 new articles around the Kirghiz: 24 people from Bars Beg to Abaoji, among them the Kirghiz envoys to the Tang, the Uyghur khans Hesa and Ögä, Li Deyu and three Tang emperors
Nine new events from the Göktürk campaign of 710 to Abaoji on the Orkhon in 924, among them the rescue of Princess Taihe and the Kirghiz campaign against the Shiwei, all in the chronology in five languages
Ten neighbouring peoples of the Kirghiz: Kyshtym, Chik, Az, Kurykan, Boma, Shiwei, Furi, the Black Carts, the Tatars and the Dubo
The Uyghur Khaganate and the Yenisei Kirghiz Khaganate now open to read in all five languages
Bukhara and the Sogdians from new sources: the History of Bukhara of Narshakhī read in full, the legend of Abrūī and Shir-i Kishvar, the tombs of Shi Jun and An Jia and the crowns of the Hephthalites
From two essays of Annemarie von Gabain: the Irk Bitig as a book of dice omens, a second reading of the runic script, the title idikut of the Basmıl and new readings on Bumin and Istemi
Twenty-two new works in the library of sources, among them Drompp on the Tang and the Kirghiz, Minorsky's Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam and Marvazī, Barthold's Kirghiz and the History of Bukhara in English and Persian

Hotfix 13.0.1–13.0.3 Features 3

Features

Fixed the account of the Tongdian on the origin of the Göktürks, which joins the Pingliang and the Xiongnu origins in one sentence, and the sources of the helmet etymology of their name.
Fixed the status of the year of death of Bumin Khan, which is inferred and not stated in the Zhou Shu.
Fixed the spelling of the Uyghur minister Jueluowu (掘羅勿).

Build 13.0 The Xiongnu Atlas

A fourth map of the Xiongnu era in the Atlas: the Xiongnu north of the Gobi, c. 100 BC
The map of 176–174 BC at the head of the article on the Xiongnu, in five languages

Build 12.9 The Steppe Unites

Three maps of the Xiongnu era in the Atlas: c. 215, 209–200 and 176–174 BC
Qin takes the Ordos, Bagatur unites the steppe, the Xiongnu at their height
The new maps also in the articles on Duman, Bagatur, the Xiongnu and the Xiongnu–Han Wars, in five languages

Build 12.8 The Xiongnu Update

Bagatur (Modu Chanyu) and the Xiongnu open to read now, in five languages, as significant articles
Bagatur revised: the army figures of the Shiji explained, and the land of the Xiongnu in the light of the Töre
The Xiongnu–Han Wars, with every campaign from Baideng to the end of the northern chanyus
The Han–Xiongnu heqin treaties, from Baideng to Wang Zhaojun
A new reading path: the Xiongnu
Qin and Han emperors beside the Xiongnu rulers, and the maps of the Xiongnu in their articles

Build 12.7 The Vanguard Update

Five more articles open to read now, in five languages: Anagui, the Turkic War of Independence, the Kül Tegin inscription, Ötüken and mounted archery
New cover pictures from museum collections
The Xiongnu and the European Huns in the table of Turkic states

Hotfix 12.6.1 Features 1

Features

Fixed the search, which showed no category for the customs.

Build 12.6 The Customs Update

A new category, Customs & Pastimes: feasts, music, hunting, sport and games of the steppe peoples
New articles on hunting, the ring hunt, falconry, mounted archery, skiing on wooden horses, races, wrestling and polo
New articles on games and wagers, knucklebones and the Kirghiz entertainments
Ishbara's hunt of 587, the archery match of 599, the Sui shows for Yami Khan and Li Chengqian's Göktürk camp
Customs & Pastimes open to read now, and a group of customs on the Göktürks page

Build 12.5 The Signposts Update

Signposts to the table of the Turkic states on the front page, in the Atlas and in the menu
The later Turkic states under a veil, from the Kimek onwards
Larger emblems, names and type in the table of states
The countdown to the release, large and centred in the banner of the vanguard page
The timeline on the front page in the colours of the empires, with their emblems
A calmer, darker rune background under the text
An emblem for the Huns

Hotfix 12.4.6–12.4.8 Features 3

Features

Moved the countdown on the vanguard page to the middle of the banner, larger and on a stronger background.
Calmed the rune background under the text in the dark scheme.
Added an emblem for the Huns, after the Hunnic bronze cauldron.

Hotfix 12.4.1–12.4.5 Features 5

Features

Added a pointer at the top of the Atlas that leads to the table of the Turkic states.
Added the same pointer to the Atlas on the front page, enlarged the emblems, names and lettering of the table of states, and veiled the later states.
Added an entry for the table of the Turkic states to the menu, below the Atlas.
Added the countdown to the banner of the vanguard page, smaller and muted.
Changed the timeline of the front page to show each realm in its own colour with its emblem, and the epochs in the colours of the maps.

Build 12.4 The States Update

A table of the Turkic states in the Atlas, 22 states from 487 to 1240 with emblem, years, ruling house, founder, capital and successor
New short articles on 15 states, from the Gaoche and the Türgesh to Volga Bulgaria and the Shatuo dynasties
New short articles on the Kimek, the Pechenegs and the Shatuo
The 28 maps of the Atlas now also in Turkish and German

Hotfix 12.3.1–12.3.2 Features 2

Features

Fixed the article on the Old Turkic script, which named the Arabic alphabet as the one Kashgari gives for Turkic; it is the Uyghur script.
Changed the title of the patron of the Kutadgu Bilig in the Turkish article on khan and khagan to Kağan.

Build 12.3 The Maps Update

Eleven new maps in the Atlas, from Dou Xian's campaign of 89 to Bahram Chobin in 589
The Xianbei under Tanshihuai, the Rouran from Shelun to Anagui, and the Hunnic Empire at Attila's death
The First Göktürk Khaganate in 553, 556, 572 and 589

Build 12.2 The Kutadgu Bilig Update Features 1

Features

Changed the course of a war, the parts of a war and the alliance boxes to give titles, notes and dates in the language of the page, and to lead to the version in that language wherever one exists.

Hotfix 12.1.1–12.1.3 Features 3

Features

Changed the ruler's title in Spanish from kan to khan, throughout the site.
Fixed footnote markers that showed as raw text: two in the Japanese article on the twelve-year animal cycle, one in the lists Disputed and Mysteries.
Trimmed the small script that every page carries.

Build 12.1 The Translation Update Features 1

Features

Changed the links in a translated article, on the pages of a rubric, on the pages of a religion and on Turkic Töre to lead to the version in the language of the page wherever one exists.

Hotfix 12.0.1–12.0.2 Features 2

Features

Fixed a stray comma in the article on Asena the She-Wolf.
Fixed the grammar of the German short description of Tengrism.

Build 12.0 The Atlas Update Features 2

Features

Added the Atlas: the maps as ornate plates in the order of time, with a plate number and a cartouche for the year. Turning to the next plate keeps the frame still and blends one map into the next; the arrow keys and a swipe turn the plates too. A click on the map opens it full screen and enlarged, to drag and zoom.
What's new now gathers the hotfixes of a build into a few blocks, each fix a point of its own.

Hotfix 11.5.7–11.5.11 Features 5

Features

In the dark scheme the background now carries lines of the Bilge Khan inscription cut into the stone, with türük, Tengri, bodun, Bumın and İstemi glowing beside the page.
The infobox of the Göktürk khaganates now gives the demonym as Türük, followed by the runes 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰜.
Corrected the articles on the Nushibi and the Chumukun: the Chumukun were the first of the five Duolu tribes of the Ten Arrows, and the five Nushibi tribes stood under five irkin.
Added to the articles on Kucha and the Tarim Basin that Gaozong gave up the Four Garrisons on his accession and moved the Anxi protectorate back to Xizhou, and that they were recovered from the Tibetans in 692.
Revised the sixteen maps from 523 to 603: the names of the realms now stand in white with a dark outline, the realms reach the coastline, and the frontiers follow the corrected moving maps.

Hotfix 11.5.1–11.5.6 Features 6

Features

Fixed the banner of the home page: the pictures of 25 places now stay centred on what matters in them, the peaks, the ruins, the river or the lake.
Fixed the floating panels of the preview page: all 16 maps of the video series stand among them again, in their current drawing.
Fixed the heading of articles: the symbol of the category no longer appears a second time in large, and on wide screens the infobox now begins beside the title and description.
Corrected the two moving maps of 402 to 603: from 560 the Göktürk frontier runs further north through the Kazakh steppe to the Kirghiz and Lake Baikal and takes in the whole Tian Shan, as on the other maps, and no realm overlaps another.
Fixed the year pages of 523 to 527: the map of the Six Garrisons rebellion now stands at the top of each.
Corrected the map of the Göktürk civil war, 583 to 587: the frontier runs further north to the Kirghiz and Lake Baikal, and the zones of Apa and Ishbara no longer overlap.

Build 11.5 The Feasts and Music Update Features 1

Features

Added a short tour, First steps, for the first visit: a ring and an arrow show the menu, the search, the languages and the design, step by step. Hints appear the first time a footnote, a reading path, a moving map, the slider, the course of a war or the neighbouring thrones are on the page; each closes with ×, and one button switches them all off.

Hotfix 11.4.1–11.4.2 Features 2

Features

Corrected the articles on face-cutting and on Göktürk burial: in the Sui Shu the mourners go round the tent crying aloud, and only the Zhou Shu says that they rode.
Corrected the maps of 523 to 603: the Tuyuhun are reduced to their homeland around Lake Qinghai, the Göktürk frontier runs further north through the Kazakh steppe to the Kirghiz and Lake Baikal and takes in the whole Tian Shan, lakes are no longer painted over, and no realm overlaps another.

Build 11.4

A new article on Turkic mythology
The she-wolf of the Ashina, the tree of the succession, Heaven, Earth-and-Water and Umay
The moon and the lord of the dead, the peri and the rites of the Huns
The page of religions shows the religions themselves as large cards
Each card leads to the articles that belong to its religion
Cover pictures for 50 more places, from photographs of the sites to pages of the sources that name them
40 place articles now show their picture at the top

Hotfix 11.3.1–11.3.4 Features 4

Features

The map of the Göktürk embassy to Constantinople now stands on the page of 571, the year Zemarchos came back with Tagma Tarkhan, and the moving map shows the khaganate of 552 without the lands about Lake Baikal, the Kirghiz and the Khitan.
Corrected the maps of 576, 581, 584 and 603: the cities stand at their ruins, the gaps between neighbouring realms are closed, and the names of peoples are set apart from those of landscapes. On the moving map the Göktürks of 553 to 555 no longer reach Lake Baikal.
The summary of each build in What's new now stands as a list of points instead of a paragraph.
Redrew the maps of 523–528, 545, 582–583, 585, 587–588 and 597–599 in the style of the other maps of the sixth century; the two older maps of 545 are replaced by one map of the Western Wei embassy to the Göktürks.

Build 11.3 The Food Update Features 1

Features

Added the main map of a realm: the First Göktürk Khaganate carries its map of 576 at the top of its infobox, under the emblem of the house, with its caption in the language of the page.

Hotfix 11.2.6–11.2.9 Features 4

Features

Corrected the article on ayran and its description on the vanguard page: the Sui Shu says that the Göktürks drank fermented mare's milk until they were drunk, not that they drank it at gatherings.
Corrected the articles on the Rouran civil war of 520–521 and on the rise of Anagui: in 521 the Wei sent Anagui hemp seed and dried grain because he had no stores; he asked for millet to sow only in 522.
Footnotes and literature lists now show translators, editors and dates in English, and book numbers in Roman numerals stay in capitals.
Corrected the sources of four articles: Bögü Khan's meeting with the Manichaeans at Luoyang rests on the Karabalghasun inscription, the skull cup of the Yuezhi king on the Shiji, the Karabalghasun inscription names the edition read, and the feast of 607 names Yami Khan.

Hotfix 11.2.1–11.2.5 Features 5

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Ayran now stands on the vanguard page as a large card with its own description, like the other open articles.
Removed the timeline from the top of articles on battles and other single events. Wars keep theirs.
The maps of the wars with Persia and of the Caucasus campaign now show the realms: the Göktürks, Persia and Byzantium as areas, and the contested lands between them hatched.
Corrected the map of Asia around 542: the cities stand at their ruins, the gaps between neighbouring realms are closed, and the names of peoples are set apart from those of landscapes.
Four new maps: the Göktürk–Rouran war of 551–552, the First Göktürk Khaganate in 552, the destruction of the Hephthalites around 560 and the Göktürk embassy to Constantinople around 571, in their articles and on the pages of their years.

Build 11.2 Features 1

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Added a new category, Foods, for the food and drink of the steppe peoples, with its own emblem, a footed drinking cup.

Hotfix 11.0.1 Features 1

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Fixed the frontier between the steppe and China on the maps: the wall of the Northern Qi, the Ordos of the Zhou and the Sui and a frontier zone held by neither side now fill the strip that stood empty.

Build 11.0

Alpha v11 is complete: 244 new articles on the Göktürks of 439 to 630, their people, places, battles, alliances, titles and customs.

Build 10.9 The Frontiers Update Features 1

Features

Added a box to the design button: choose the main design, Premier or Orkhon, and then its colours; colours that do not suit the chosen design stand greyed out.

Hotfix 10.8.1 Features 1

Features

Corrections from the work on the places: Zhang Renyuan under his right name, Ashina Funian fetched from Xiazhou as the son of Ilig's elder cousin, Bagha's conquests of 588 as the cities of Bactria, and several references set right.

Build 10.8 The People Update

66 new articles on the people around the Göktürk khans, from Börü Khan and Princess Qianjin to Niri Khan, Kayen and Chorpan Tarkhan
Princes and princesses of the Ashina
The Chinese princesses at the khans' courts
Envoys, generals and advisers

Hotfix 10.7.1 Features 1

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Corrections from the work on the people: the death of Princess Dayi in the reading of the Sui Shu, the game of chupu, the wife of Tardu Shad, and several names written as the sources write them, among them Moheduo and Tuyuhun Hunye.

Build 10.7 The Byzantium Update

The alliance of the Göktürks with Byzantium now carries its golden box on every event, from Maniakh's embassy of 568 to the Caucasus campaign of 627
New articles on the Tarniach, the Kotzager and the Zabender, who fled from the Göktürks to the Avars
Portraits for five Göktürk titles

Hotfix 10.6.1–10.6.4 Features 4

Features

In the articles on wars, the course of the war now stands in the right-hand column below the infobox, as a clear vertical sequence with a narrow timeline above it; the text begins at once with the contents.
Added articles on the Qi march to Shuozhou in 553, Mukan's destruction of the last Rouran under Dengshuzi and the flight of the Tarniach and Kotzager to the Avars.
Fixed the emblem of a state appearing twice at the head of its article; the emblems of states and peoples in the infoboxes are now a third larger.
The war boxes on the articles of a war now carry a bold frame in cinnabar with a band of faceted diamonds, to match the golden frame of the alliances.

Build 10.6 The Alliances Update Features 2

Features

Added the conflict box: every part of a war such as the Göktürk–Rouran Wars carries, under its infobox and in a reddish frame, the whole war with its parts, its own entry highlighted.
Added the alliance box: every event of an alliance carries, under its infobox and in an ornamented golden frame with a carved pearl band, the alliance and all the deeds of the allies, its own entry highlighted.

Hotfix 10.5.1–10.5.2 Features 2

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Corrected details from the review of the event articles: Ishbara's invasion of 582 and his letter of 584, Bumin's death year in the Zizhi Tongjian, Tulan's death in 603 as a second reckoning, the dates of 628 at the Tang court, the sources of several statements on Taspar, Apa, Tardush and Heshana, and the title of the attack on Yami Khan in 599. The descriptions in What's new no longer repeat the name of the update.
In the boxes of the wars, the parties and their leaders now stand left-aligned, and their emblems are shown much larger.

Build 10.5 The Events Update

59 new articles on the events of the Göktürks, from the proclamation of Bumin Khan in 552 to the fall of Ilig in 630
The battles at Baidao, Mount Dajin, Jingyang and the Iron Mountain
The embassies between the khans and the courts of the Sui and Byzantium
The khan's letter to Maurice
The siege of Tiflis
Xuanzang's visit to Tong Yabgu
Each stands in the timeline and in the war it belongs to

Hotfix 10.4.1–10.4.2 Features 2

Features

Corrected the dating of Ilig Khan's advance on Chang'an in 626: the Jiu Tang Shu puts it in the seventh month, the Zizhi Tongjian in the eighth, after Taizong took the throne.
Fixed two stations in the course of a war that overlapped on phones. They now stand on separate rows.

Build 10.4 The Places Update Features 1

Features

Added a theme page on the Göktürks, with their realms on a timeline, their reading paths and all articles on their rulers, wars, places, titles, customs and sources; the reading paths now open with the four Göktürk chapters side by side.

Hotfix 10.3.1–10.3.2 Features 2

Features

Corrected four points on the Chinese frontier against the sources: Ilig was beaten at Jingyang in 626, the two Tang histories count the columns of 630 differently, the pass crossed in 200 BC is Gouzhu, and Ashina Simo crossed the river in 641.
Corrected three points in the west: the gate of Sul is no longer equated with Derbent without question, the two lesser khans of the Tarim served under Chuluo Khan, and the Western Sea of the Ashina legend is read as the Caspian or the Aral Sea.

Build 10.3 The Töre Update Features 2

Features

Extended the journey through time on the home page back to 215 BC, beginning with the Xiongnu; it now shows the whole steppe, from the Caspian to the Khingan.
Widened the golden Significant banner of the major articles, which now fades out towards the right, and set the introduction of every article one size larger.

Hotfix 10.2.1–10.2.4 Features 4

Features

Fixed the previews in the language window, which were too small to tell the languages apart. They now show the title and introduction close up.
Fixed the wordmark at the top of the open pages: before the release it now leads to the vanguard page, the public start page, instead of back to the countdown.
Added to the article on Yami Khan the second tradition of his parentage, in which he is the son of Ishbara's brother Bagha Khan.
Corrected four points against the sources: the article on sacrifice now names the priests Theophylact records, the tudun no longer carries a tally, the shad takes its runic form from Ilterish's line, and Bagha's title Mohe comes from the Zizhi Tongjian.

Build 10.2 The Ashina Update

20 new articles on the beginnings of the Göktürks, from the ancestors of the legend and the flight of 439 to Mukan's wars and his alliance with the Zhou in 564

Hotfix 10.1.1–10.1.2 Features 2

Features

Fixed two links that led to the not-yet-written page although the article exists: balbal in Deer stones and the cutting of the face in Valentinos.
Corrected four points against the Chinese text: the brothers of the Suo legend were foolish, not born without limbs; the Zhou princess at the khan's court in the Sui wars is Qianjin; Awusili Irkin in Yami Khan is a man, not a people; and the Sui envoy is spelled Zhangsun Sheng.

Build 10.1 Features 3

Premier, midnight blue and gold on ivory, is now the default design
The search page filters by category and epoch
The articles on Bumin Khan and Istemi are revised in all five languages

Features

Added filters by category and epoch to the search page; a year typed into the search leads straight to its year page.
Made Premier, midnight blue and gold on ivory, the default design; the other four remain in the switch.
Changed the labels of the animated maps so that none covers another on any screen, and the first map now shows how to play it.

Hotfix 10.0.1–10.0.5 Features 5

Features

Istemi's year of death now stands as 576 throughout, in his article, in the articles on Tardush and on the Göktürk expansion into Europe, and in the chronology.
Fixed two translated articles: Bagha Khan now says in every language that the Sui Shu gives no year for his death, and the footnotes of Turkic Tribes in Europe give the exact passages in Priscus and Jordanes.
Added the Old Turkic runes to the name band of the Second Göktürk Khaganate: türk bodun and Türük El, as the Kül Tegin and Tonyukuk inscriptions write them.
Unified the Japanese spelling of Kül Tegin across the site.
German texts on the site now use the sharp s (ß) wherever standard German writes it.

Build 10.0 The Huns Update Features 2

Features

Changed the timeline at the top of articles: it now stands compactly in the text column beside the information box, which no longer slips below it. The scale now begins in 350, and the Hunnic Empire has its own band.
Added names for builds in What's new, beginning with The Huns Update.

Build 9.6 Features 2

Features

Added a stone frame around every portrait of a ruler. The Göktürk rulers carry their name and their realm carved in runes into its sides, read from top to bottom as on the Orkhon steles. A light blue shimmer of Kut moves around the portraits of Bumin Khan and Istemi. Added title pages to the significant articles: a large title, the name in runes and the main image beside it.
Added a small note above each footnote number that shows the reference in place. Added a random article to the menu and the footer. Added a year spine beside long articles: the year of the paragraph being read and its animal light up in the margin. Added an opening at the start of every visit: the wordmark writes itself large and flies into the header.

Hotfix 9.5.1–9.5.2 Features 2

Features

Fixed the title image of the significant articles, which did not appear on some phones. It concerned the portraits of Bumin Khan and Istemi.
Fixed an error in the code of the journey through time on the home page that stopped the automatic checks of the site. The pages themselves were not affected.

Build 9.5 Features 2

Features

Added a moving map of the wars of the Göktürks with Persia, 588 to about 616, in nine time slices: from the attack on Persia from four sides in 588 over Bahram Chobin's campaign beyond the Oxus, his revolt and his flight to the host of the great khagan before Rayy and Isfahan. Extended the map of the Caucasus campaign to eight time slices, from the Roman offer of 626 over the meeting before Tiflis and Heraclius's march to Nineveh and Dastagerd to the fall of Tiflis and the raid into Armenia in 629 or 630. Every march runs over the stations the sources name.
Added portraits above the information box: the articles on Bumin Khan, Istemi and Anagui open with a portrait at the top of the right column, marked as a modern portrait.

Hotfix 9.4.1–9.4.5 Features 5

Features

Fixed the music of the countdown page: “Birth of a Hero” from the film “Bumin Khan” now plays there from the beginning, at the latest with the first click or tap on the page, and a button under the countdown shows the piece and stops it. Added a glow to the Old Turkic words for Türk on the stone of the home page: once the inscription has written itself in, they light up in runes and in transcription and keep glowing.
Fixed the running ticker in the header linking to a page that is not yet open; before the opening it now runs softly blurred like the locked parts of the menu, and every blurred part of the site is gentler on the eye.
Fixed the navigation of the reading paths taking up too much room beside the article: all paths now share one box with a slim row each, and the title of the next or previous article appears when the pointer rests on an arrow.
Fixed the references, which called every chapter a juan, the scroll of the Chinese histories, even in Armenian, Greek and Old Turkic works. Sebeos now has chapters and Movses books.
Fixed the death of Bagha in six articles and the chronology: in the reading they follow he was beaten at the Hyrcanian rock in April 588 and killed on the Oxus, not at the rock.

Build 9.4 Features 4

A journey through time on the home page
Maps in full screen
Campaigns as routes
Cover images for every place

Features

Added a journey through time to the home page. Scrolling runs the years from 402 to 840 over a large map of the steppe: the realms of the moving maps appear and pass, with the year, its animal, the time slice of the map and what happened. Added the colour of the epoch to the articles: the line under the header, the line under the title, the reading progress and the section marks take the colour of the article's epoch.
Added campaigns as routes on the moving maps. A march runs as a line over the stations a source names and draws itself when its time slice appears; each stretch shows its basis, solid where a source names the march, dashed where the way between named stations is drawn, dotted where it follows a modern reconstruction. Istemi's march to the Oxus about 560 now runs over Chach and Bukhara to Nasaf, and a new map follows the Caucasus campaign of 626 to 628 from the Caspian gates at Derbent to the siege of Tiflis.
Added cover images to every place on the Places page, as on the pages of the wars and the inscriptions, and all cover images now show a little more clearly.
Added full screen to the maps on the map page. In full screen the map fills the screen, zooms with the mouse wheel, two fingers, the + and − buttons or keys, and moves by dragging or with the arrow keys; a button returns to the view of the time slice, and the legend can be shown over the map. Added a small map to the preview of a place: resting on a link to a place that a moving map shows brings up its point and the realms of the time of the page being read.

Hotfix 9.3.1 Features 1

Features

Fixed the link preview returning after Esc when the small map of a place was still loading.

Build 9.3 Features 5

Moving maps of the Xiongnu and the Uyghurs
Two new designs
Larger language flags
A language window behind the globe

Features

Added new descriptions to all five articles on the preview page, among them the First Göktürk Khaganate and the Göktürk expansion along the Silk Road, and the khans of the Uyghurs to every period on their moving map.
Added a language window behind the globe in the header. It opens in the middle of the dimmed page and shows the article on Bumin Khan, a moving map and the chronology side by side, changing language together; below them the five languages stand large, each leading to the same page in its language, and a line says what is available in all five.
Added a note on the first visit that points with an arrow to the language flags, which are now larger: the atlas can be read in English, Turkish, German, Spanish and Japanese. The note closes with ×, with Esc or with a click on a flag, and does not return.
Added two moving maps to the map page: the Xiongnu from about 215 BC to AD 180 in ten time slices, and the Uyghur Khaganate from 744 to 848 in eight. A border that a source names, such as the Han frontier, is drawn as a line; an uncertain border is drawn as a soft band with a dotted centre. The maps now stand in the order of their years.
Added two designs to the design switch: Old Turkic steles, with the menu as the stone slab of an inscription and the page in limestone, and Premier, in night blue and gold with a pearl border after the saddle-cloths of the Afrasiab paintings.

Hotfix 9.2.13–9.2.18 Features 6

Features

Fixed the crop of the Bumin Khan picture on the preview page, so that the riders behind him are clearly in view.
The preview page now introduces the Ashina and Istemi with new descriptions, in all five languages.
Fixed the names on the moving map of the Xiongnu: every realm of the Xiongnu is now named Xiongnu, with its ruler in a line beneath, such as “under the rule of Modu”.
Fixed the names on the moving map of the Uyghurs in the same way: every realm of the Uyghurs is now named Uyghurs, with its khan in a line beneath, such as “under the rule of Bögü Khan”.
Fixed the language window behind the globe, whose three panels stayed empty: the article, the map and the chronology now show in all five languages.
Shortened the note in the language window to what is available in all five languages.

Hotfix 9.2.7–9.2.12 Features 6

Features

Removed the empty “Maps” category page; the maps remain on the map page, the year pages and in the articles.
Shortened four article descriptions that exceeded the length of a description: Rouran rule over the Turkic peoples, the Turkic-Sogdian synthesis, the Bei Shi and the Wei Shu.
The realms on the moving maps now look painted: an uneven watercolour wash in each realm's colour, a soft band of colour along the inside of every border, paper grain on the land and a textured sea, so that the territories stand out clearly and still belong to the map.
The preview page now introduces Bumin Khan with a new description of his rise and his victory over the Rouran, in all five languages.
Fixed labels that covered each other on all six moving maps: the Tian Shan lay over Kucha and Aksu, the names of campaigns over realms and places, the Uyghur realm over Ordu-Balık. Every time slice is now clear in all five languages.
Fixed the running bar at the top of the page, which cut its messages off: a message too long for its window now runs through to its end before the next one appears. The header is wider on large screens, and its German labels are shorter.

Hotfix 9.2.1–9.2.6 Features 6

Features

Fixed the foot of translated articles: “What links here”, the succession and “Cite this article” now appear in the language of the page, and the citation keeps the English title.
Fixed links on the translated pages that led to English pages: the ticker, the years of an article, its category, the home page and the full-text search now stay in the chosen language.
Fixed red links in translated articles: they now lead to the page for articles not yet written in the language of the article, and say so in that language.
Fixed the language switch on the inscriptions page and on the page for articles not yet written, which led to the home page.
Fixed the Turkish punctuation of the war boxes, the world chronology and the emblems, which still used dashes.
Fixed the numbers on the pages in Turkish, German and Spanish, which used the English comma as the thousands separator.

Build 9.2 Features 2

Features

Added depth to the cards of the states, wars, lineages and inscriptions: under the pointer they tilt, zoom and catch the light. Added the tamga of the Ashina at the section headings of their articles, cut in as the heading scrolls into view. Added lines to the family trees that grow generation by generation and light up the path from a person to the founder. Added a time ruler over the reigns of a state: it names the year under the pointer, who held the throne and who ruled the neighbouring realms.
Changed the loading of the site on phones: fonts load only for the characters a page uses, backgrounds and the strip of images arrive when they are needed and in a size that fits the screen, and the scripts come as one file instead of fifteen.

Hotfix 9.1.6–9.1.9 Features 4

Features

Restored the lettering of the countdown and made the stone behind it finer: dark granite with crystals, relief and a bevelled edge. The figures stay inside the stone on every screen.
Fixed an error in the code of the vanguard page that stopped the automatic checks of the site. The page itself was not affected.
Before the opening, the links in the footer now show which pages can already be read, as the menu does. The others are veiled.
The vanguard page now shows the search at the top, locked until the opening, marked “Available soon”.

Hotfix 9.1.1–9.1.5 Features 5

Features

Opened the years, the map, the states, the wars, the battles and the places to visitors before the release. Changed the preview page to a clear overview in four groups, with a countdown to the opening.
Fixed the menu for visitors before the release: the years, the map, the states, the lineages, the wars, the battles and the places now stand sharp and can be clicked there.
Added a large button below the heading of the preview page that leads straight to everything already open to read.
Recarved the countdown on the preview page: a hewn stone slab with the Ashina tamga, the runes and the figures cut into it, with traces of cinnabar in the grooves.
Added the vanguard page: the start page as it will look after the release, with every article already open shown as a card with its cover image and summary.

Build 9.1 Features 2

Features

Added motion to the moving maps: between two years a realm now grows or shrinks into its new extent instead of fading. Added the sound value of every Old Turkic rune, shown under the pointer or on a tap. Added the name On Ok (Ten Arrows) to the map of the Second Göktürk Khaganate for 712 to 714.
Added a pause button to the changing images of the home page and smaller images for phones. Added the key / to jump into the search from any page, and Esc to leave it. Changed the moving backgrounds from a trial to a fixed part of the site, now also behind the cards of the wars and the inscriptions. Fixed the header, which jumped from two lines to one on wide screens while the fonts loaded.

Hotfix 9.0.1–9.0.4 Features 4

Features

Fixed an error in the code of the article header that stopped the automatic checks of the site. The pages themselves were not affected.
Fixed the number of features in What's new, which stood against the word without a space. Fixed two errors in the automatic checks of the site.
Fixed the moving backgrounds of the cards on the pages of the wars and the inscriptions, which barely moved when scrolling.
Changed the moving backgrounds of the cards on the page of the wars to move half as far again when scrolling.

Build 9.0 Features 2

Features

Enlarged the Second Göktürk Khaganate on its moving map. The realm now reaches north beyond Lake Baikal into the country of the Yir Bayırku, and from 712 to 714 across Dzungaria and the lands of the Ten Arrows to the Syr Darya, the Pearl River of the inscriptions.
Changed the runic spelling of türük across the site, in the wordmark, the motto and every line of runes, to the sign the inscriptions use for k beside ö and ü. Added Türük El in runes to the names of the First Göktürk Khaganate.

Build 8.9 Features 6

Colour for all signs of the site
A red initial for every article
A paper texture for the pages

Features

Changed all signs of the site to colour: the categories, the years, the reading paths, the fields of the chronology and the twelve animals of the cycle, which are now golden. The colours follow the chosen design; black on white stays black and white. Added the Old Turkic runes to the names of the First Göktürk Khaganate.
Added motion to the timelines and lists: the bands of the timeline and the bars of the reigns grow from their first year to their last, the cards of a category and the search results slide in one after another, and next and back slide the page to the left or right. The banner of significant articles now carries a star; the wolf-head standard stays the sign of the States.
Changed the sign of the States to the wolf-head standard in colour: a golden wolf's head on a pennant. Added a gold banner, Significant, at the top of significant articles: Bumin Khan, Istemi, the First Göktürk Khaganate and Tengrism.
Added a faint paper texture to the page backgrounds in the stone and paper designs, light and dark: fibres, laid lines and chain lines as in handmade paper. Black on white stays plain.
Added a red initial to the first paragraph of every article, standing on the first line and pressed in like a seal as the page loads; the short description under the title stays without. Fixed the runic spelling of Bumin's name and of the second türük in the motto on the home page.
Added motion on first appearance: the emblems draw themselves, lines of runes write themselves in from right to left, the initial on the home page presses in like a seal, the picture of an entry flies into the lead image of the article, and a footnote lights up on the jump and marks its sentence on the way back. Nothing moves when the device asks for reduced motion.

Build 8.8 Features 2

Features

Fixed the black-on-white design, which turned dark on devices set to dark mode; it now stays white, and the switch for the colour scheme steps back while it is chosen.
Added the page Support this project. When the support banner is closed, it turns into this entry at the top of every page.

Build 8.7 Features 1

Features

Added a third design, black on white as on the news sites; the design switch now runs stone, paper, black on white.

Build 8.6 Features 1

Features

Added cover pictures to all seven reading paths, each with its credit at the foot of the box, and a background picture to every entry on the Inscriptions page, with the credits at the foot of the page.

Build 8.5 Features 1

Features

Added a fourth clickable map: the Second Göktürk Khaganate from 682 to 744 in eight time slices, from the rising north of the Tang frontier to the fall. Every realm, people and place on it opens its article.

Build 8.4 Features 2

Features

Changed the radio: it now opens with Birth of a Hero, and under the title of a piece from one of the editor's films the player names the film.
Added the copyright notice © Emre-E Yavuz 2026 to the top right corner of every map, in articles, on year pages, in reading paths, on the Media page and on the moving maps.

Build 8.3

Expanded the article on the Afrasiab paintings with all four walls and eleven photographs
Added an article on the legendary king Afrasiab
Added two maps of the Göktürk civil war, 597–599 and 603

Build 8.2 Features 2

Features

Changed the menu: the section you are in lights up in gold, also on each of its articles, and the entry under the pointer lights up in turquoise.
Added a third clickable map: the zones of the four princes of the Göktürk civil war between 583 and 587, each opening its article. On all moving maps the Göktürk border now follows the Oxus, and the Tarim basin shows Kashgar, Aksu, Kucha, Turfan, Khotan and the Jade Gate.

Build 8.1 Features 4

Told all seven reading paths as narratives
Added a second moving map of the Göktürk civil war
Added the first slider between an original and its reconstruction

Features

Added the first slider between an original and its reconstruction: a procession from the paintings of Afrasiab fades from the painting as it survives into an original artistic reconstruction made for the atlas, and a tap on the picture switches between the two.
Added a second moving map: the Göktürk civil war from 581 to 603 in seven stages. Every khan's territory carries his name and opens his article, and the map page now shows both maps.
Changed all seven reading paths into narratives: a paragraph for each step, a map or picture beside it, and all of it in five languages.
Changed the header: the running ticker, the line under the wordmark and the links to About, How to use and The Editor are larger and brighter.

Build 8.0 Features 1

Features

Changed the preview page: fifty fragments of the atlas fly towards the reader in random order, the editor's maps, chronology entries, family trees, article openings and references in all five languages.

Build 7.9 Features 6

A clickable map
A moving map of the Rouran and the Göktürks from 402 to 584
New maps of the Göktürk civil war

Features

Added a clickable map on its own page: the Rouran and the Göktürks from 402 to 584, where every realm, neighbour and place opens its article.
Revised the Rouran reading path: larger type, a narrative paragraph for each step, the emblems of the states and houses involved, and all of it in five languages.
Added a moving map of the Rouran and the Göktürks from 402 to 584 in twelve time slices, each area marked by what it rests on.
Added maps of Asia in 584, of the Göktürk civil war in 584, 585 and 587–588, and of Ishbara's campaigns against the Sui.
Added the pages of the states, the dynasties and the wars to the preview, with emblems and quiet background images.
Changed the Media page: the maps now stand as a category of their own, each with its time slice and full caption.

Build 7.8 Features 6

Maps of Asia in 545, 552 and 560
A Media page with every image of the atlas
The Rouran reading path as a story with a map beside the text

Features

Added a Media page with every image of the atlas: photographs and historical images in one column, modern depictions and maps in the other.
Changed the reading path on the Rouran into a story: a map or image stands still beside the text and changes with the steps.
Added a bar at the foot of the screen on phones with search, menu and radio; the infobox folds open and shut there.
Added maps of Asia in 545, 552 and 560 at the top of their year pages and beside the articles they illustrate.
Added family tables to the pages of the dynasties, from top to bottom, with marriages, daughters and grandchildren.
Renamed Historiography to Controversies and Silences to Mysteries.

Build 7.7 Features 6

Added a reading path box above the infobox: step back or forward along every path an article belongs to

Features

Added a reading path box above the infobox of every article on a reading path, with the way back and forward; several paths stand one above the other.
Added typed examples to the search field on the home page; the search also finds articles by their titles in Turkish, German, Spanish and Japanese.
Changed the inscription stele on the home page to granite with carved runes and the tamga of the Ashina in its crown.
Added a reading progress line under the header of long articles, figures that count up on the home page, and a parallax effect for the landscape photographs of the Altai.
Fixed the decades on the years page, which now read 660s rather than 660S.
Added the track Can of Whoopass to the radio.

Build 7.6 Features 1

Features

Changed the war infobox: each side stands in its own darker colour, and on phones as its own block with its parties, leaders, strength and losses.

Build 7.5 Features 10

Added the course of each war: every battle, embassy and campaign as a marked point on the years of the war

Features

Added a parallax effect to the home page banner, the panoramas and the pictures of the reading paths.
Added the course of the war to war articles: every part as a marked point on the years, with a card for each.
Changed the home page banner to show each picture on its subject for three and a half seconds, blended into the next, under a vignette.
Added the contemporaries to the infobox of a ruler: who reigned at the same time in the other steppe realms, in China, Iran, Korea and Byzantium.
Added a time line of reigns to the rulers section of realm articles, with overlapping reigns, vacant years and notes on the succession.
Changed the name band, the infobox and the index of names to set the Old Turkic form first and mark it out.
Changed the time bar on phones to run vertically, with the years on the left and every label in full.
Added the page Transmission: all source works on one time line by tradition, with the works each copies.
Added a transmission box to every source article: the distance between the earliest events it reports and its writing, and the works it copies or that copy it.
Added the name band: under the name section of an article, every form of the name in its own script, with its language and source.

Build 7.3 Features 4

Expanded the articles on the Western Wei and the Northern Zhou, with eleven images

Features

Changed the note on the gap in the Steppe Chronology into a large vertical label along the years it covers.
Added a changing banner to the home page: a new picture every ten seconds, the title set as text.
Translated the entries on the year pages, in the World chronology and among the competing dates.
Translated the Steppe Chronology into Turkish, German, Spanish and Japanese: all 448 entries.

Build 7.2 Features 1

Features

Marked the years 155 to 400 in the Steppe Chronology as a hatched range, to be filled in.

Build 7.1 Features 4

How to use and About in all five languages
Byzantium among the neighbouring thrones
A revised Ashina

Features

Revised How to use: three ways in at the top, the rest in short cards; How to use and About now in all five languages.
Changed rulers and conflict parts without an article to red links, like predecessors and successors.
Added Byzantium as a fourth realm to the neighbouring thrones on the year pages, and extended all four back to 400.
Removed the time bar from articles whose span ends before 400, where the scale does not reach.

Build 7.0 Features 5

Two designs to choose from
What's new ordered by month and build

Features

Removed the unlabelled war strokes beneath the time bar on the home page.
Added a choice of two designs in the header: stone and lapis, or paper and cinnabar, each with a light and a dark scheme.
Changed the read-aloud button to play a recording where one exists, with a position bar and the elapsed time.
Changed What's new to group changes by month and by build, each build with its number, date and headline.
Changed the infobox of the Göktürk expansion into Europe to set the four parties against each other.

Build 6.9 Features 4

Articles read aloud
A new look in stone and lapis
Three more articles in five languages

Features

Added a read-aloud button to every article: it reads the text in the language of the page, marks the paragraph being read and pauses the radio.
Changed the colour scheme: a cool stone ground, lapis for the header and the labels, and cinnabar kept as the colour of the seal.
Added Turkish, German, Spanish and Japanese versions of the articles on the Ashina, Istemi and the First Göktürk Khaganate.
Revised the articles throughout: the text no longer speaks about itself, and the sentences state their findings directly.

Build 6.8 Features 4

Reading paths in large panels
A soft fade between pages

Features

Fixed links in italics or inside tables, which appeared as raw text in six articles, and the apostrophe after a link, which appeared as an opening quotation mark on 72 pages.
Fixed four articles whose source list lacked a source cited in their footnotes.
Added soft page transitions: the content fades over while the header, menu and radio stay still.
Changed the reading paths page into large panels, each listing its steps with a link to follow the path.

Build 6.7 Features 4

Links now preview their article
Quotations from the sources stand beside the text

Features

Added link previews: hovering over a link to an article shows its title, dates, summary and image.
Changed quotations from primary sources into set-off blocks naming their source; short ones and article photographs now stand beside their paragraph.
Improved typography: BC and AD in true small capitals, and kerning and diacritic placement restored in the Latin font files.
Revised the front-page introduction in all five languages.

Build 6.6 Features 2

Features

Fixed the Japanese interface to name the Göktürks ギョクテュルク throughout; 突厥 remains only in the script name and in quotations.
Added Chronologies as a single menu entry for the two chronology pages. Renamed Complete chronology to Steppe Chronology.

Build 6.5 Features 2

Features

Added Turkic Töre to the left menu: 20 articles on Old Turkic traditions in five themed groups.
Added the reading path Istemi's Journey to the West, linking eight overview articles on the Göktürks' westward expansion.

Build 6.4 Features 4

“Did you know” now changes every day
Menander is read in the Greek

Features

Added daily rotation to Did you know: five of 18 facts are displayed each day.
Added Sui and Northern Wei banners to realm infoboxes and war infoboxes.
Improved infobox labels with larger bold text, stronger contrast in light and dark modes, and wider label columns.
Added a background-music prompt above the radio on mobile screens in all five languages.

Build 6.3 Features 3

Every picture now opens in full size
The realms page shows the emblems

Features

Added an image viewer for article images and diagrams, with captions, navigation and keyboard controls.
Reorganized the realms page into three tiers of emblem cards, led by the two Göktürk khaganates and the Uyghurs.
Added an article on the peri, covering her Persian name and her role in Turkic folklore.

Build 6.2 Features 10

Wars and events are now grouped by epoch
The radio stands out from the page

Features

Grouped war and battle listings into four epochs and sorted entries chronologically within each group.
Improved the visibility of the radio and the build number with stronger background contrast.
Revised the Three Worlds article, clarifying the distinction between the Orkhon inscriptions and later cosmological traditions.
Added direct track selection to the radio, with nine tracks grouped under Music and Ambient.
Changed radio playback to use a fixed opening track on the first visit, followed by a shuffled cycle without repeats.
Fixed the site header in place while scrolling, keeping the wordmark, language switcher and ticker visible.
Added article images for the World Tree, the Three Worlds and the Irk Bitig.
Added explicit new and revised labels to every article entry in the changelog.
Named the audio player Turkic Atlas Radio.
Added article header images above the infoboxes in the right-hand column.

Build 6.1 Features 3

Added the radio: steppe music on every page, with the piece running on across page changes

Features

Added a site-wide radio player with nine tracks and uninterrupted playback between pages.
Moved the build number from the ticker to a permanent position at the top of the left menu.
Fixed the changelog displaying article updates one delivery late.

Build 6.0 Features 9

Search priority for key articles
Second names for twelve articles
Eleven new fields in the infobox of every realm

Features

Added a priority list to the live search: 18 key articles appear first for their letter, marked with a coloured strip.
Added second names: 12 articles can now be found under an alternative title as well, such as Göktürk War of Independence or White Huns.
Added 11 realm infobox fields, including capital, founders, ruling house, demonym and neighbours.
Added an article on the Xueyantuo Khaganate and its ruler Yinan.
Expanded the article on the Uyghurs with their settlement, their cities, Manichaeism and the later Uyghur states of Qočo and Ganzhou.
Changed the page behind a red link from /not-yet/ to /building/, and added it in all five languages.
Added the TA monogram as the site icon for browser tabs and home screens.
Fixed live search retaining the previous language and the language switcher redirecting to the home page.
Corrected 13 ruler infoboxes that displayed reign dates as lifetimes.

Build 5.9 Features 2

Features

Added four epochs to the time bar above the realms: Rouran, Göktürk, Uyghur and Kirghiz.
Added the rulers of China, Iran and Korea to year pages for 540–930.

Build 5.8 Features 2

Features

Added four articles on the steppe before the Xiongnu: Cimmerians, Scythians, Saka and Sarmatians.
Added 21 short articles: three peoples, one battle, one office, seven Xianbei houses and nine entries on the material culture of the steppe.

Build 5.7

What's new now lists what the atlas learned to do, newest first

Build 5.6 Features 2

Features

Added article titles and links to parent conflicts to battle and war infoboxes.
Added multi-language support for all single-year pages: 252 years in five languages.

Build 5.5 Features 1

Features

Added multi-language support for all 13 views in the left-hand menu.

Build 5.4 Features 1

Features

Changed realm emblems to full-width banners at the top of infoboxes.

Build 5.3 Features 5

The evidence map: how many independent witnesses stand behind each article

Features

Added the evidence map: a page counting the independent witnesses behind each article.
Added predecessor and successor to the infobox, shown with arrows on ruler articles.
Added lists of battles and campaigns to war articles and family trees to ruling-house articles.
Added a target page for links to articles that do not exist yet; such links are shown in red.
Added the emblem of each side next to every commander listed in a war infobox.

Build 5.2

The Zhou–Qi war, and the winter the Göktürks marched into China

Build 5.1 Features 2

Features

Changed navigation to load pages without a full browser reload.
Added multi-language support for all infobox labels: from 27 to 100 entries per language.

Build 5.0

Alpha v5 complete: 260 articles, no stubs, and the atlas shows what is inside

Build 4.9

The page before the opening can be found now, and the connection says it is secure

Build 4.8 Features 1

Features

Fixed the language switcher opening the home page instead of the translated article.

Build 4.7 Features 1

Features

Added the wordmark to the site header: Türük in runes, with the name beside it.

Build 4.6

Every address of the atlas in one list, kept current with each delivery

Build 4.5 Features 1

Features

Added 34 entries outside the steppe to the world chronology, covering Byzantium, Persia, Arabia, Tibet and Korea.

Build 4.3 Features 2

Features

Added Japanese as the fifth language of the interface.
Added four diagrams to the articles on belief: the two worlds, the twelve-year wheel, the plan of a memorial site and the layers of Tengrism.

Build 4.2 Features 1

Features

Revised 186 of 215 articles to use a consistent, clear narrative style.

Build 4.1 Features 1

Features

Fixed the search box at the top of each page while scrolling.

Build 4.0 Features 2

Features

Added multi-language support for search and full-text search.
Added an infobox to war articles: parties, commanders, strength, losses and outcome.

Build 3.9 Features 3

The Forge — what is being written now

Features

Added The Forge, listing current, planned and recently completed work.
Added an article of the month to the home page and a page about the editor.
Added Spanish as the fourth language of the interface.

Build 3.8 Features 3

Chapter bar that follows you down a long article

Features

Added a chapter navigation bar that follows scrolling in long articles.
Split wars and battles into two categories: the whole conflict, and the single engagement.
Added the About and How to use pages.

Build 3.7

Beg, Atabeg and Ilteber — the titles of the steppe

Build 3.6

Wider page, full-text search as its own section

Build 3.5 Features 2

Features

Added full-text search across all articles.
Added the world chronology.

Build 3.4 Features 1

Features

Added three views: the name index, the glossary and this changelog.

Build 3.3 Features 2

Features

Added a list of the newest articles to the home page.
Changed all date notation from CE and BCE to AD and BC.

Build 3.2

Two new articles on the debates over the Xiongnu

Build 3.1 Features 1

Features

Added Institutions and Titles as a category of its own.

Before build 3.1 Features 4

Features

Added backlinks and ready-to-copy citations to article footers.
Added succession lists to ruler articles and source-dependency notes to source articles.
Added footnotes: a numeral in the sentence and a list of references at the foot of the article.
Added a German home page and flags to the language switch.