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Years · 6th century

571

Year of the hare tavışgan yıl

3 entries in Eastern steppe, Western steppe and Byzantium.

Map of the return of Zemarchos with the Göktürk embassy under Tagma Tarkhan, 569 to 571: from Talas north of the Aral Sea across the Emba, the Ural and the Volga, through the lands of the Alans and over the Caucasus to the Black Sea and Constantinople — 569–571: Zemarchos returns from Istemi with a Göktürk embassy under Tagma Tarkhan, from Talas across the steppe north of the Caspian, through the lands of the Ugurs and the Alans and over the Dareine road to the Black Sea, and reaches Constantinople late in 571. Modern map; the stations are Menander's, the road between them is drawn.

Who ruled

Byzantium Justin II 565–578
First Göktürk Khaganate Mukan Khan 553–572
Northern Zhou Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou 560–578
Sasanian Persia Khosrow I 531–579
Western Göktürk Khaganate Istemi 552–576

And beyond the steppe

China Northern Zhou Emperor Wu 560–578 · Northern Qi Gao Wei 565–577
Iran Sasanian Khosrow I 531–579
Korea Goguryeo Pyeongwon 559–590
Byzantium Justinian Justin II 565–578

Eastern steppe

Environment · Late Antique Little Ice Age: the cold phase the Altai tree rings define from 536 to about 660 (536–660)

Climate and the steppe empires · First Göktürk Khaganate · Avars

The coldest decade in the Altai is the 540s

Western steppe

Culture · Sogdian colonists found the first towns of Semirech'e, Suyab and Navaket among them, as estates of nobles (450–600)

Suyab · Sogdians

Byzantium

Zemarchos returns to Constantinople with the Göktürk embassy of Tagma Tarkhan

Zemarchos · Tagma Tarkhan · The embassy of Zemarchos, 569

John of Ephesus has the envoys home after an absence of two years; reckoned from Menander's departure in August 569, the return falls late in 571.