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Years · 6th century

589

Year of the hen takıgu yıl

3 entries in Eastern steppe, Western steppe and Persia.

Map of Asia in 589: Bahram Chobin's march from Herat to Paikent and the road of Parmūdha and the treasure to Ctesiphon, the Göktürks divided into Tardush, Niri and the eastern khaganate under Tulan, the Sui and the Chen they took in 589, Sasanian Persia and Byzantium — 589: Bahram Chobin retakes Herat and crosses the Oxus to Paikent; Parmūdha and the treasure are sent to Ctesiphon. In the same year the Sui take the Chen and unite China. Modern map; the roads are drawn, and the divisions of the khaganate are approximate.

Who ruled

First Göktürk Khaganate Tulan Khan 588–599
Sasanian Persia Hormizd IV 579–590
Western Göktürk Khaganate Tardush 576–603 · Niri Khan 587–603

And beyond the steppe

China Sui Emperor Wen 581–604
Iran Sasanian Hormizd IV 579–590
Korea Goguryeo Pyeongwon 559–590
Byzantium Justinian Maurice 582–602

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

Persia

Bahram Chobin retakes Herat, is said to take the khan's golden throne, and reaches the country of Bukhara; then rises against his own king

Bahram Chobin · Göktürk–Persian war, 588–589 · Herat · Bukhara · Sasanian Persia