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Significant655 CE – 657 CE · 2 years

Conquest of the Western Turks

Irtysh River region · Dzungaria · modern Xinjiang/Kazakhstan

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Tang campaign of 655–657 led by general Su Dingfang that defeated Ashina Helu at the Battle of Irtysh River, destroyed the Western Turkic Khaganate, and extended Tang control over the Western Regions.

Belligerents2

  • Tang dynasty
  • Western Turkic Khaganate

ON THE MAPTang Dynasty

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Conquest of the Western Turks
  2. Old Book of Tang; Zizhi Tongjian
  3. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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45.00°N · 80.00°E · 655 CE – 657 CEWARS-ATLAS / CONFLICT / CONQUEST-OF-THE-WESTERN-TURKS

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