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Years · 6th century

595

Year of the hare tavışgan yıl

3 entries in Eastern steppe, Western steppe and Byzantium.

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 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

Byzantium

A Göktürk embassy brings the emperor Maurice the khan's letter of victory, in which he calls himself lord of seven races; Theophylact tells it under the summer of 595

The khan's letter to Maurice · Revolt of Turum · Theophylact Simocatta

Also dated 582 (One reading): Soon after Maurice's accession. Also dated 598 (A second reading): The embassy belongs to the last years of the century.