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Issik Qaghan

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Kara Issik Qaghan
Qaghan of the First Turkic Khaganate
Reign552 – 553
PredecessorBumin Qaghan
SuccessorMuqan Qaghan
BornAshina Keluo (阿史那科罗)
Died553
IssueIshbara Qaghan
Bagha Qaghan
HouseAshina
FatherBumin Qaghan

Kara Issik Qaghan (Chinese: 乙息記可汗; pinyin: Yǐxījì kěhàn) was the second ruler of the Turkic Khaganate.

Biography

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His personal name was Ashina Keluo (Chinese: 阿史那科罗) which is reconstructible in Middle Chinese as *kʰuâ-lâ, which is transliterated as either Old Turkic Qara.[1] His regnal name Yixiji was reconstructed by Ahmet Taşağıl as Ilji.[2] He is also referred to as Ayi Qaghan (阿逸可汗) in Cefu Yuangui.[3]

During his brief rule, he defeated the Rouran khagan Yujiulü Dengzhu near Mulai Mountain to north of Woye Town (modern Wuyuan County, Inner Mongolia). He is recorded to have sent a tribute of 50,000 horses to Western Wei in May 553. He died the same year after an illness and was succeeded by his younger brother Yandou.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Golden, Peter B. (1992). An introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples: ethnogenesis and state-formation in medieval and early modern Eurasia and the Middle East. Turcologica. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz. p. 121. ISBN 978-3-447-03274-2.
  2. ^ Taşağıl, Ahmet (2013). Kök Tengri'nin Çocukları - Avrasya Bozkırlarında İslam Öncesi Türk Tarihi [Children of Kök Tengri - Pre-Islamic Turkish History in the Eurasian Steppes] (in Turkish). Istanbul: Bilge Kültür Sanat. p. 128. ISBN 9786055261658.
  3. ^ Erkoç, Hayrettin İhsan (2016). "Batı Göktürk Kağanlığı'nın Kuruluşu" [Foundation of the Western Türk Qaġanate]. Journal of Faculty of Letters (in Turkish). 33 (1). Hacettepe University.
  4. ^ Hongsheng, Cai (2023-11-24). Sino-Foreign Cultural Exchange: A Historical Perspective. Taylor & Francis. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-003-80491-8.
Issik Qaghan
Preceded by Khagan of the Turkic Khaganate
552–553
Succeeded by