Woye was a frontier garrison of the Northern Wei. It was the westernmost of the six garrisons that held the line north of the Yellow River bend. Garrisons of that kind formed the hinge between the steppe and the Chinese plain. The history of the sixth century keeps returning to them.
Woye enters the record four times. The revolt of the Six Garrisons broke out there in 524 under Poliuhan Baling. The other garrisons rose with him.[1] In 525 Anagui came west to Woye with a hundred thousand men. He put the revolt down for the Wei.[1] In 553 Issik Khan broke Dengshuzi’s army at Mount Mulai, north of Woye. This ended the Rouran as a force on the frontier.[2] In 564 the Zhou sent Yang Zhong out by Woye for the second campaign of the war against the Qi.[3]
References
Sources
- Wei Shu, juan 103
- Zhou Shu (Book of Zhou), juan 50
- Zizhi tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance), juan 165 (after Wei Shu, Zhou Shu, Sui Shu and Bei Shi)
Literature
- Emre-E. Yavuz, The Gokturk Empire: 2nd Edition (2025)
- Peter B. Golden, An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples (1992)
What links here28
- Persons
- Anagui · Anluochen · Dengzhu · Mukan Khan · Poliuhan Baling · Poluomen Khan · Yang Zhong · Yuwen Hu
- Conflicts
- Hegemony Wars in Northern China · Revolt of the Six Garrisons · Rouran civil war (520–521) · The Göktürk–Rouran Wars · The Zhou–Qi war, 557–577
- Battles & Events
- Battle of Mount Mulai (553) · Jinyang campaign, 563–564 · Rise of Anagui Khan · The Göktürk–Zhou alliance · The Qi March to Shuozhou (553) · The Woye and Luoyang Campaign (564)
- Places
- Huaihuang · Mount Mulai · Ordos
- Institutions and Titles
- Six Garrisons
Cite this article
Yavuz, Emre-E. “Woye.” Turkic Atlas, revised 22 October 2026. https://turkicatlas.org/places/woye/
Last revised: 22 October 2026
