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Years · 6th century

591

Year of the pig toŋuz yıl

3 entries in Eastern steppe, Western steppe and Persia.

Who ruled

First Göktürk Khaganate Tulan Khan 588–599
Western Göktürk Khaganate Tardush 576–603 · Niri Khan 587–603

And beyond the steppe

China Sui Emperor Wen 581–604
Iran Sasanian Bahram Chobin 590–591 · Khosrow II 591–628
Korea Goguryeo Yeongyang 590–618
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, beaten by Khosrow II, flees east; Tabari and aṯ-Ṯaʿālibī bring him to the Göktürk khan, whose khatun has him murdered, Sebeos to Balkh, where the inhabitants kill him

Bahram Chobin · Göktürk–Persian war, 588–589 · Sasanian Persia · Murder of Bahram Chobin · Göktürk prisoners with the cross (591)