Bugu

Rouran epoch Göktürk epoch Uyghur epoch Kirghiz epoch

Rouran First Göktürk Tang rule Second Göktürk Uyghur Kirghiz Huns Western Göktürk Türgesh Karluk Khazar

Rouran 400–554
First Göktürk 552–630
Tang rule 630–682
Second Göktürk 682–744
Uyghur 744–840
Kirghiz 840–924
Huns 370–469
Western Göktürk 552–659
Türgesh 699–766
Karluk 766–800
Khazar 650–969

The Bugu were one of the nine Tiele tribes that made up the Toquz Oghuz confederation under Uyghur leadership.^[1]

The Bugu are better recorded than most of the nine, and they owe this to one man. Pugu Huai’en served the Tang faithfully through the rebellion of An Lushan. Afterwards he led a revolt of his own. He was descended from the ruling family of the tribe. The Chinese accounts disagree on whether the chief Gelanbayan was his father or a more distant forebear.^[1]

References

^ a b Mackerras 1972, p. 129

Sources

Jiu Tangshu (Old Book of Tang), juan 194
Xin Tangshu (New Book of Tang), juan 215 (after Jiu Tangshu)

Literature

Colin Mackerras, The Uighur Empire According to the T'ang Dynastic Histories (1972)
Peter B. Golden, An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples (1992)