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The '''Göktürks''', '''Celestial Turks''' or '''Blue Turks''' ({{lang-otk|
The '''Göktürks''', '''Celestial Turks''' or '''Blue Turks''' ({{lang-otk|
𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣|Türük Bodun}}, [[Middle Chinese]]: [[wikt:突|突]][[wikt:厥|厥]], romanized: *''dwət-kuɑt'' > ''tɦut-kyat''; [[Sogdian language|Sogdian]]: *''Türkit ~ Türküt'', ''tr'wkt'', ''trwkt'', ''turkt'' > ''trwkc'', ''trukč''; [[Saka language|Khotanese Saka]]: ''Ttūrka'', ''Ttrūka''{{sfn|Golden|2011|p=20}}{{sfn|Golden|2018|p=292}}) were a nomadic confederation of [[Turkic peoples]] in medieval [[Inner Asia]]. The Göktürks, under the leadership of [[Bumin Qaghan]] (d. 552) and his sons, succeeded the [[Rouran Khaganate]] as the main power in the region and established the [[Turkic Khaganate]], one of several nomadic dynasties which would shape the future geolocation, culture, and dominant beliefs of [[Turkic peoples]].
𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣|Türük Bodun}}, [[Middle Chinese]]: [[wikt:突|突]][[wikt:厥|厥]], romanized: *''dwət-kuɑt'' > ''tɦut-kyat'') were a nomadic confederation of [[Turkic peoples]] in medieval [[Inner Asia]]. The Göktürks, under the leadership of [[Bumin Qaghan]] (d. 552) and his sons, succeeded the [[Rouran Khaganate]] as the main power in the region and established the [[Turkic Khaganate]], one of several nomadic dynasties which would shape the future geolocation, culture, and dominant beliefs of [[Turkic peoples]].


==Etymology==
==Etymology==
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Göktürk means "Celestial Turks",{{sfn|Marshall Cavendish Corporation|2006|p=545}} or sometimes "Blue Turks" (i.e. because [[sky blue]] is associated with [[Sky deity|celestial realms]]). This is consistent with "the cult of heavenly ordained rule" which was a recurrent element of Altaic political culture and as such may have been imbibed by the Göktürks from their predecessors in Mongolia.<ref>Wink 64.</ref> The name of the ruling [[Ashina tribe|Ashina clan]] may derive from the [[Khotanese Saka]] term for "deep blue", ''āššɪna''.{{sfn|Findley|2004|p=39}}
Göktürk means "Celestial Turks",{{sfn|Marshall Cavendish Corporation|2006|p=545}} or sometimes "Blue Turks" (i.e. because [[sky blue]] is associated with [[Sky deity|celestial realms]]). This is consistent with "the cult of heavenly ordained rule" which was a recurrent element of Altaic political culture and as such may have been imbibed by the Göktürks from their predecessors in Mongolia.<ref>Wink 64.</ref> The name of the ruling [[Ashina tribe|Ashina clan]] may derive from the [[Khotanese Saka]] term for "deep blue", ''āššɪna''.{{sfn|Findley|2004|p=39}}

The ethnonym was also recorded in various other Middle Asian languages, such as [[Sogdian language|Sogdian]] *''Türkit ~ Türküt'', ''tr'wkt'', ''trwkt'', ''turkt'' > ''trwkc'', ''trukč''; [[Saka language|Khotanese Saka]] ''Ttūrka'', ''Ttrūka'' and [[Old Tibetan]] ''Drugu''.{{sfn|Golden|2011|p=20}}{{sfn|Golden|2018|p=292}}


Researchers such as [[Peter Benjamin Golden|Peter B. Golden]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=8-OilJCX1moC&pg=PA142|title=Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World|last1=Golden|first1=Peter|last2=Mair|first2=Victor|date=2006|publisher=University of Hawai'i Press|isbn=0824828844|location=Honolulu|page=142}}</ref> H. W. Haussig,<ref name="Haussig Н 1979">Haussig Н. W. "Byzantinische Qullen über Mittelasien in ihrer historischen Aussage" // Prolegomena to the sources on the history of pre-Islamic Central Asia. Budapest, 1979. S. 55–56.</ref> S. G. Klyashtorny,<ref>[http://kronk.spb.ru/library/klashtorny-sg-1965.htm Кляшторный С. Г. Проблемы ранней истории племени тÿрк (ашина). // Новое в советской археологии. / МИА № 130. М.: 1965. С. 278–281.]</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">Kjyashtorny S. G. ''The Royal Clan of the Turks and the Problem of its Designation // Post-Soviet Central Asia''. Edited by Touraj Atabaki and John O'Kane. Tauris Academic Studies. London*New York in association with IIAS. International Institute for Asian Studies. Leiden-Amsterdam, p.&nbsp;366-369.</ref> A. N. Bernstamm,<ref name="rgo-sib.ru">[http://www.rgo-sib.ru/book/kniga/159.htm Бернштам А. Н. Никита Яковлевич Бичурин (Иакинф) и его труд "Собрание сведений..." М.-Л., Наука, 1950.]</ref> [[Carter V. Findley]],<ref name="Findley2004">{{cite book|title=The Turks in World History|last1=Findley|first1=Carter|date=11 November 2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0195177268|edition=1|page=39}}</ref> D.G. Savinov,<ref>[http://kronk.spb.ru/library/savinov-dg-1988.htm Савинов Д.Г. Владение Цигу древнетюркских генеалогических преданий и таштыкская культура. // Историко-культурные связи народов Южной Сибири. Абакан: 1988. С. 64-74.]</ref> S. P. Guschin,<ref name="Conde, Lidergraf 2014">[https://www.academia.edu/23316012/Wen_S.-Q._Muratov_B.A._Suyunov_R.R._The_haplogroups_of_the_representatives_from_ancient_Turkic_clans_-_Ashina_and_Ashide_BEHPS_ISSN_2410-1788_Volume_3_2_1_2_March_2016_P.154-157 Wen S.-Q., Muratov B.A., Suyunov R.R. The haplogroups of the representatives from ancient Turkic clans - Ashina and Ashide // BEHPS]. {{ISSN|2410-1788}}, Volume 3, No. 2 [1,2]. March 2016. p.&nbsp;154-157. R.R. Suyunov, [http://suyun.info/index.php?p=07082014_2 Муратов Б.А., Суюнов Р.Р. Саки-динлины, аорсы, Ашина и потомки кланов Дешти-Кипчака по данным ДНК-генеалогии // Вестник Академии ДНК-генеалогии (Бостон, США) → Том 7, №8, Август 2014, стр. 1198-1226.], Muratov, Муратов Б.А. ДНК-генеалогия тюркоязычных народов Урала, Волги и Кавказа. Том 4, серия «Этногеномика и ДНК-генеалогия», ЭИ Проект «Суюн». Vila do Conde, Lidergraf, 2014, илл. {{ISBN|978-5-9904583-2-1}}.</ref> Rona-Tas<ref name="Róna-Tas1999">{{cite book|title=Hungarians and Europe in the Early Middle Ages: An Introduction to Early Hungarian History|last1=Rona-Tas|first1=Andras|date=1999|publisher=Central European University Press|isbn=9639116483}}</ref> and R. N. Frye<ref>[http://www.richardfrye.org/files/Turks_in_Transoxiana.pdf Frye Richard N. Turks in Transoxiana]</ref> have pointed out that the origin of the Ashina is from the [[Indo-Iranians|Indo-Iranian]] [[Saka]] or [[Wusun]].<ref name="Sinor3283">{{harvnb|Sinor|Klyashtorny|1996|pp=328–329}}</ref>{{dubious|date=January 2020}}
Researchers such as [[Peter Benjamin Golden|Peter B. Golden]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=8-OilJCX1moC&pg=PA142|title=Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World|last1=Golden|first1=Peter|last2=Mair|first2=Victor|date=2006|publisher=University of Hawai'i Press|isbn=0824828844|location=Honolulu|page=142}}</ref> H. W. Haussig,<ref name="Haussig Н 1979">Haussig Н. W. "Byzantinische Qullen über Mittelasien in ihrer historischen Aussage" // Prolegomena to the sources on the history of pre-Islamic Central Asia. Budapest, 1979. S. 55–56.</ref> S. G. Klyashtorny,<ref>[http://kronk.spb.ru/library/klashtorny-sg-1965.htm Кляшторный С. Г. Проблемы ранней истории племени тÿрк (ашина). // Новое в советской археологии. / МИА № 130. М.: 1965. С. 278–281.]</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">Kjyashtorny S. G. ''The Royal Clan of the Turks and the Problem of its Designation // Post-Soviet Central Asia''. Edited by Touraj Atabaki and John O'Kane. Tauris Academic Studies. London*New York in association with IIAS. International Institute for Asian Studies. Leiden-Amsterdam, p.&nbsp;366-369.</ref> A. N. Bernstamm,<ref name="rgo-sib.ru">[http://www.rgo-sib.ru/book/kniga/159.htm Бернштам А. Н. Никита Яковлевич Бичурин (Иакинф) и его труд "Собрание сведений..." М.-Л., Наука, 1950.]</ref> [[Carter V. Findley]],<ref name="Findley2004">{{cite book|title=The Turks in World History|last1=Findley|first1=Carter|date=11 November 2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0195177268|edition=1|page=39}}</ref> D.G. Savinov,<ref>[http://kronk.spb.ru/library/savinov-dg-1988.htm Савинов Д.Г. Владение Цигу древнетюркских генеалогических преданий и таштыкская культура. // Историко-культурные связи народов Южной Сибири. Абакан: 1988. С. 64-74.]</ref> S. P. Guschin,<ref name="Conde, Lidergraf 2014">[https://www.academia.edu/23316012/Wen_S.-Q._Muratov_B.A._Suyunov_R.R._The_haplogroups_of_the_representatives_from_ancient_Turkic_clans_-_Ashina_and_Ashide_BEHPS_ISSN_2410-1788_Volume_3_2_1_2_March_2016_P.154-157 Wen S.-Q., Muratov B.A., Suyunov R.R. The haplogroups of the representatives from ancient Turkic clans - Ashina and Ashide // BEHPS]. {{ISSN|2410-1788}}, Volume 3, No. 2 [1,2]. March 2016. p.&nbsp;154-157. R.R. Suyunov, [http://suyun.info/index.php?p=07082014_2 Муратов Б.А., Суюнов Р.Р. Саки-динлины, аорсы, Ашина и потомки кланов Дешти-Кипчака по данным ДНК-генеалогии // Вестник Академии ДНК-генеалогии (Бостон, США) → Том 7, №8, Август 2014, стр. 1198-1226.], Muratov, Муратов Б.А. ДНК-генеалогия тюркоязычных народов Урала, Волги и Кавказа. Том 4, серия «Этногеномика и ДНК-генеалогия», ЭИ Проект «Суюн». Vila do Conde, Lidergraf, 2014, илл. {{ISBN|978-5-9904583-2-1}}.</ref> Rona-Tas<ref name="Róna-Tas1999">{{cite book|title=Hungarians and Europe in the Early Middle Ages: An Introduction to Early Hungarian History|last1=Rona-Tas|first1=Andras|date=1999|publisher=Central European University Press|isbn=9639116483}}</ref> and R. N. Frye<ref>[http://www.richardfrye.org/files/Turks_in_Transoxiana.pdf Frye Richard N. Turks in Transoxiana]</ref> have pointed out that the origin of the Ashina is from the [[Indo-Iranians|Indo-Iranian]] [[Saka]] or [[Wusun]].<ref name="Sinor3283">{{harvnb|Sinor|Klyashtorny|1996|pp=328–329}}</ref>{{dubious|date=January 2020}}

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Göktürks
𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰:𐰉𐰆𐰑𐰣
Türük Bodun
Göktürk petroglyphs from Mongolia (6th to 8th century)
Total population
Ancestral to some Turkic population
Regions with significant populations
Central and Eastern Asia
Languages
Old Turkic
Middle Chinese[1]
Religion
Tengrism
Related ethnic groups
Türgesh, Toquz Oghuz, Xueyantuo, Shatuo[2]

The Göktürks, Celestial Turks or Blue Turks (Template:Lang-otk, Middle Chinese: , romanized: *dwət-kuɑt > tɦut-kyat) were a nomadic confederation of Turkic peoples in medieval Inner Asia. The Göktürks, under the leadership of Bumin Qaghan (d. 552) and his sons, succeeded the Rouran Khaganate as the main power in the region and established the Turkic Khaganate, one of several nomadic dynasties which would shape the future geolocation, culture, and dominant beliefs of Turkic peoples.

Etymology

Lineage of the Göktürks

Strictly speaking, the common name Göktürk is the Anatolian Turkish form of the ethnonym. The Old Turkic name variants for Göktürk were Template:Lang-otk[3][4] Template:Lang-otk,[3][4] or Template:Lang-otk.[5] They were known in Middle Chinese historical sources as the Tūjué[6] (Chinese: ). According to Chinese sources, Tūjué meant "combat helmet" (Chinese: ; pinyin: Dōumóu; Wade–Giles: Tou1-mou2), reportedly because the shape of the Altai Mountains where they lived, was similar to a combat helmet.[7][8][9]

Göktürk means "Celestial Turks",[10] or sometimes "Blue Turks" (i.e. because sky blue is associated with celestial realms). This is consistent with "the cult of heavenly ordained rule" which was a recurrent element of Altaic political culture and as such may have been imbibed by the Göktürks from their predecessors in Mongolia.[11] The name of the ruling Ashina clan may derive from the Khotanese Saka term for "deep blue", āššɪna.[12]

The ethnonym was also recorded in various other Middle Asian languages, such as Sogdian *Türkit ~ Türküt, tr'wkt, trwkt, turkt > trwkc, trukč; Khotanese Saka Ttūrka, Ttrūka and Old Tibetan Drugu.[6][13]

Researchers such as Peter B. Golden,[14] H. W. Haussig,[15] S. G. Klyashtorny,[16][17] A. N. Bernstamm,[18] Carter V. Findley,[19] D.G. Savinov,[20] S. P. Guschin,[21] Rona-Tas[22] and R. N. Frye[23] have pointed out that the origin of the Ashina is from the Indo-Iranian Saka or Wusun.[24][dubiousdiscuss]

According to American Heritage Dictionary the word Türk meant "strong" in Old Turkic.[25]

Origins

File:Kul Tigin.jpg
Kül Tigin

The Göktürk rulers originated from the Ashina clan, who were first attested to 439. The Book of Sui reports that in that year, on October 18, the Tuoba ruler Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei overthrew Juqu Mujian of the Northern Liang in eastern Gansu,[26][27][28] whence 500 Ashina families fled northwest to the Rouran Khaganate in the vicinity of Gaochang.[8][29]

According to the Book of Zhou and History of the Northern Dynasties, the Ashina clan was a component of the Xiongnu confederation,[7][9] but this is contested.[30] Book of Zhou also reported that the Göktürk originated from an obscure Suo state (索國), north of the Xiongnu.[7] According to the Book of Sui and the Tongdian, they were "mixed Hu (barbarians)" (雜胡) from Pingliang.[8][31] According to the New Book of Tang, the Ashina were related to the northern tribes of the Xiongnu, in particular they were of Tiele tribe by ancestral lineage.[32][33]

Chinese sources linked the Hu on their northern borders to the Xiongnu just as Graeco-Roman historiographers called the Pannonian Avars, Huns and Hungarians "Scythians". Such archaizing was a common literary topos, implying similar geographic origins and nomadic lifestyle but not direct filiation.[34][page needed]

As part of the heterogeneous Rouran Khaganate, the Türks lived for generations north of the Altai Mountains, where they 'engaged in metal working for the Rouran'.[8][35] According to Denis Sinor, the rise to power of the Ashina clan represented an 'internal revolution' in the Rouran Khaganate rather than an external conquest.[36]

According to Charles Holcombe, the early Turk population was rather heterogeneous and many of the names of Türk rulers, including the two founding members, are not even Turkic.[37] This is supported by evidence from the Orkhon inscriptions, which include several non-Turkic lexemes, possibly representing Uralic or Yeniseian words.[38][39] Peter Benjamin Golden points out that the khaghans of the Turkic Khaganate, the Ashina, who were of an undetermined ethnic origin, adopted Iranian and Tokharian (or non-Altaic) titles, he also adds that this hypothesis assumes that they were not themselves lranian or Tokharian in speech.[40] German Turkologist W.-E. Scharlipp points out that many common terms in Turkic are Iranian in origin.[41] Whatever language the Ashina may have spoken originally, they and those they ruled would all speak Turkic, in a variety of dialects, and create, in a broadly defined sense, a common culture.[40][42] Several historians have pointed out that the origin of the Ashina is from the Indo-Aryan Wusun.[24][dubiousdiscuss]

Expansion

The Göktürks reached their peak in late 6th century and began to invade the Sui Dynasty of China. However, the war ended due to the division of Turkic nobles and their civil war for the throne of Khagan. With the support of Emperor Wen of Sui, Yami Qaghan won the competition. However, the Göktürk empire was divided to Eastern and Western empires. Weakened by the civil war, Yami Qaghan declared allegiance to Sui Dynasty.[43] When Sui began to decline, Shibi Khagan began to assault its territory and even surrounded Emperor Yang of Sui in Siege of Yanmen (615 AD) with 100,000 cavalry troops. After the collapse of Sui dynasty, the Göktürks intervened in the ensuing Chinese civil wars, providing support to the northeastern rebel Liu Heita against the rising Tang in 622 and 623. Liu enjoyed a long string of success but was finally routed by Li Shimin and other Tang generals and executed. The Tang dynasty was then established.

Conquest by the Tang

Göktürk cavalry mural

Although Göktürk Khaganate once provided support to the Tang Dynasty in the early period of Chinese civil war, the conflicts between the Göktürks and Tang finally broke out when Tang was gradually reuniting China. Göktürk began to attack and raid the northern border of the Tang Empire and once marched their main force to Chang'an, the capital of Tang. Having not recovered from the civil war, the Tang briefly had to pay tribute to Göktürk nobles.[44] Allied with tribes against the Göktürk Khaganate, the Tang defeated the main force of Göktürk army in Battle of Yinshan four years later and captured Illig Qaghan in 630 AD.[45] With the submission of Turkic tribes, the Tang conquered the Mongolian Plateau.

After hard court debate, Emperor Taizong decided to pardon the Göktürk nobles and offered them the positions of imperial guards.[44] However, the plan ended in an assassination plan of the emperor. On May 19, 639[46] Ashina Jiesheshuai and his tribesmen directly assaulted Emperor Taizong of Tang at Jiucheng Palace (, in present-day Linyou County, Baoji, Shaanxi). However, they did not succeed and fled to the north, but were caught by pursuers near the Wei River and were killed. Ashina Hexiangu was exiled to Lingbiao.[47] After the unsuccessful raid of Ashina Jiesheshuai, on August 13, 639[48] Taizong installed Qilibi Khan and ordered the settled Turkic people to follow him north of the Yellow River to settle between the Great Wall of China and the Gobi Desert.[49] However, many Göktürk generals still remained loyal in service to the Tang Empire.

In 679, Ashide Wenfu and Ashide Fengzhi, who were Turkic leaders of the Chanyu Protectorate (單于大都護府), declared Ashina Nishufu as qaghan and revolted against the Tang dynasty.[50] In 680, Pei Xingjian defeated Ashina Nishufu and his army. Ashina Nishufu was killed by his men.[50] Ashide Wenfu made Ashina Funian a qaghan and again revolted against the Tang dynasty.[50] Ashide Wenfu and Ashina Funian surrendered to Pei Xingjian. On December 5, 681[51] 54 Göktürks including Ashide Wenfu and Ashina Funian were publicly executed in the Eastern Market of Chang'an.[50] In 682, Ilterish Qaghan and Tonyukuk revolted and occupied Heisha Castle (northwest of present-day Hohhot, Inner Mongolia) with the remnants of Ashina Funian's men.[52] The restored Göktürk Khaganate intervened in the war between Tang and Khitan tribes.[53] However, after the death of Bilge Qaghan, Göktürk could no longer subjugate other Turk tribes in grassland. In 744, allied with Tang Dynasty, the Uyghur Khaganate defeated the last Göktürk Khaganate and controlled the Mongolian Plateau.[54]

Rulers

See also

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