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Years · 6th century

597

Year of the snake yılan yıl

3 entries in Eastern steppe and Western steppe.

Map of the Göktürk civil war, 597 to 599: Tardush in the west, Niri between the Tian Shan and the Khangai, Tulan in the east, Yami's pastures in the Ordos under Sui protection, the attack of Tulan and Tardush on Yami below the Long Wall in 599 and Yami's flight to Chang'an — 597–599: Yami, who has married a Sui princess, is attacked below the Long Wall in 599 by Tulan and Tardush. He flees to the Sui court at Chang'an and is made Qimin Khan, and the Sui give his people pastures in the Ordos. Modern map; the roads are drawn, and the divisions within the khaganate are approximate.

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
Yami sends secretly to the Sui and has the princess Qianjin, now Tulan's wife, murdered

Yami Khan · Tulan Khan · Sui · Hegemony Wars in Northern China · Death of Princess Dayi

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