Alp Inanch, in Chinese 合伊難支, was a Kirghiz envoy who came to the Tang court in 863.[1] The Zizhi tongjian names him.[1]

He brought up once more the plan to take Anxi and other lands, presumably Beiting, from the Uyghurs. The Tang refused the request.[2] Michael R. Drompp reads it as a sign that the Kirghiz still had not taken those lands by 863.[2] Nothing else is known of him. He is one of the three envoys whom Drompp counts between 847 and 874. Turkic Atlas tells of them under the later embassies.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Drompp 1999, p. 395
  2. ^ a b Drompp 1999, p. 396

Literature

  • Michael R. Drompp, Breaking the Orkhon Tradition: Kirghiz Adherence to the Yenisei Region after A.D. 840 (1999)

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Kirghiz embassies of the Xiantong era (860–873)

Cite this article

Yavuz, Emre-E. “Alp Inanch.” Turkic Atlas, revised 4 November 2026. https://turkicatlas.org/persons/alp-inanch/

Last revised: 4 November 2026