State · 603 – 745

Eastern Turkic Khaganate

A state of 603 – 745 — 142 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced First Turkic Khaganate. It was replaced by Second Turkic Khaganate. Its line of rulers holds 6 people. Its own article says it was conquered by Tang dynasty.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 142 years; 603 – 745
Rulers: 6; the Khagan
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

First Turkic Khaganate · replaces · 551 – 603

After it

Second Turkic Khaganate · replaced by · 682 – 744

How it ended, as its article says

Conquered by Tang dynasty. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

The Eastern Turkic Khaganate was defeated and absorbed by the Tang dynasty, and Xueyantuo occupied the territory of the former Turkic Khaganate.

One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rulers

Read from the state’s own English article and its rulers’ articles, where Wikidata names no ruler.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

3 terms are shared from [object Object].

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Yami Qaghan	603 – 609	6 years	ending not on record
Illig Qaghan	620 – 630	10 years	ending not on record	child
Chebi Khan	645 – 650	5 years	ending not on record
Ilterish Qaghan · from the line of First Turkic Khaganate	682 – 692	10 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Qapaghan Qaghan · from the line of First Turkic Khaganate	691 – 716	25 years	died in battleWikidata's manner of death	sibling
Inel Qagan · from the line of First Turkic Khaganate	716 – 716	under a year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child

6 rulers, 6 with terms dated as terms, covering 603 – 716. Median reign 8 years. 2 of 5 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedFlag of Eastern Turkic Khaganate · CC BY 2.0 · The Orkflower

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood142 years
stood longer than 54% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median10 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 35% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record6
has more rulers on record than 69% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linkedcoincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 142

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 589 – 759, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 674, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q2607292 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.