Nomadic range · approximate744 CE – 840 CE · 96 years

Uyghur Khaganate

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Uyghur Khaganate, Khanate, or Empire, self defined as the Toquz Oghuz and known to the Tang Chinese as the Jiuxing was a Turkic empire that existed for about a century between the mid 8th and 9th centuries. It was a tribal confederation under the Uyghur nobility.

Wikipedia: Uyghur Khaganate·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Nomadic range

A pastoralist or hunter-gatherer range whose extent shifted constantly with seasons and alliances.

SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
DETAILhand-crafted-from-atlases
SNAPSHOT790 CE
MATCHEDUyghur Khaganate at peak
POLITY TYPEnomadic-range

Capital Ordu-Baliq; Beshbalik / Turfan southern garrison towns.

Also during this period

No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.

An Lushan Rebellion755–763 CE
World-changing · 13M dead
Jiedushi (Military Commissioner) Rebellions755–880 CE
World-changing · 5.0M dead
Reconquista722 CE–1492
World-changing · 1.0M dead
Byzantine-Arab Wars633 CE–1453
Major conflict · 1.0M dead
Arab-Byzantine Wars629 CE–1050
Major conflict · 500K dead
Frankish Wars of Charlemagne768–814 CE
Major conflict · 500K dead

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 744 CE and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Uyghur Khaganate (744 CE – 840 CE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/asia-uyghur-khaganate · Sources & methodology