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State · 551 – 603

First Turkic Khaganate

A state of 551 – 603 — 52 years in South Asia. It was replaced by Western Turkic Khaganate, Eastern Turkic Khaganate and Kangar union. The atlas records 6 things within it — people 6. Its line of rulers holds 6 people, 5 with dated terms. Its own article says it was dissolved.

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

Stood
52 years
551 – 603
Rulers
6
the khagan
Most ground
6.40 million km²
in 561
Within it
6
recorded rows
Symbol
1
on record, with years
Map: First Turkic Khaganate in 561, its borders in gold among its neighbours
First Turkic Khaganate in 561, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 6.40 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000Eastern Turkic Khaganate: 603 – 745Western Turkic Khaganate: 581 – 659Kangar union: 659 – 750First Turkic Khaganate: 551 – 603

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.

After it

How it ended, as its article says

Dissolved, 603. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.

The Khaganate collapsed in 603, after a series of conflicts and civil wars which separated the polity into the Eastern Turkic Khaganate and Western Turkic Khaganate.

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

Rulers

The line of khagan.

Bumin Qaghan · 551 – 552 · died in office, manner not recordedIssik Qaghan · 552 – 553 · died in office, manner not recordedMuqan Qaghan · 553 – 572 · died in office, manner not recordedTaspar Qaghan · 572 – 581 · exiled, imprisoned or confined, the article saysAmrak · 581 – 587 · the term ends after the recorded death560570580590600
deposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeending not on record
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Bumin Qaghan551 – 5521 yeardied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Issik Qaghan552 – 5531 yeardied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Muqan Qaghan553 – 57219 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonesibling
Taspar Qaghan572 – 5819 yearsexiled, imprisoned or confined, the article saysread from the ruler's own articlesibling
Amrak581 – 5876 yearsthe term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alonechild

6 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 551 – 587. Only 36 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 4 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”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

565570575580

6.40 million km² in 561, 6.40 million km² in 581; at its largest 6.40 million km² in 561. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

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

  • Tamga of Ashina
    tamga, undatedTamga of Ashina · CC BY-SA 4.0 · International Turkic Academy

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

500 – 599: 4 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 4 other500600 – 699: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other600

500 – 5994 rows

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 stood52 years

    stood longer than 34% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • The most ground it held6,404,700 km²

    held more ground at its peak than 98% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.

  • 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.

  • 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: 3 causes the record names and 3 results, 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.

Rouran Khaganate · In the article · 330 · “The origins of the Turkic Khaganate trace back to 546, when Bumin Qaghan made a preemptive strike against the Uyghur and Tiele groups planning a revolt agains…”Rouran KhaganateIstämi · Coincidence · 550IstämiTulan Qaghan · Coincidence · 550 – 599Tulan QaghanFirst Turkic Khaganate · 551 – 603First Turkic KhaganateEastern Turkic Khaganate · Linked · 603 – 745Eastern Turkic KhaganateWestern Turkic Khaganate · Linked · 581 – 659Western Turkic KhaganateKangar union · Linked · 659 – 750Kangar union400500600700
in the articlelinkedcoincidence

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

Open in the atlas

Wikidata Q15146034 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · 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.