Bumin Khan (death: 552 AD) was the founder of the Köktürk Empire. Events By Place Europe Battle of Asfeld: Longobards under king Audoin defeat the Gepids. Göktürks ( Turkish: Gök Türkler) were a Turkic people of ancient Central Asia. He is mentioned as "Tumen" (土門) in the ancient Chinese sources. His name means "smoke cloud. " Little is known about his life, and most of the information comes from legends in which he gathers a group of Turkic people living in a legendary place called Ergenekon located in the inaccessible valleys of the Altay Mountains. The Turkic peoples are Eurasian peoples residing in northern central and western Eurasia who speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family The Altai Mountains (Алтай Altay; Алтай 阿尔泰山脉 are a Mountain range in central Asia, where Russia,
In 542 he put down a revolt of the Tiele tribes against their overlords the Avars (Rouran, Ruan-Ruan). The Dingling (丁零 or Gaoche (高車 Chile (敕勒, Tiele (鐵勒 were an ancient Siberian people The Caucasian Avars are a modern people of Caucasus, mainly of Dagestan. In return he asked and was refused the hand of an Avar princess. His next move was to successfully establish contact with the Wei state in China. The Northern Wei Dynasty (北魏 Pinyin: běi wèi 386 - 534) also known as the Tuoba Wei (拓拔魏 Later Wei (後魏 or According to Chinese records, in 545 the Sogdian envoy An Nopantuo led a diplomatic mission to China. As a result of the mission, the Kokturk-Chinese alliance was sealed by Bumen's marriage to the princess Wei Chang'le (長樂公主).
The beginning of formal diplomatic relations with China propped up Bumin's authority among the Turks. He eventually united the local Turkic tribes and threw off the yoke of the Avar domination. The Caucasian Avars are a modern people of Caucasus, mainly of Dagestan. With their defeat he proclaimed the Turkic Empire (Gökturk Khaganate) and assumed the title of Il-Khagan ("great-king", 伊利可汗) at the sacred Mt. Ötüuken. Ötüken is one of the names given to Mother Earth in Tengriism.
Bumin died within several months after proclaiming himself Il-Khagan. He was succeeded by his brother Istami in the west and by his son Muhan Khan in the east. Istämi was the ruler of the western part of the Göktürks, the Western Turkic Khaganate and dominated the Sogdians He succeeded his brother Bumin Muhan Khan (other spellings include Muhan Mohan Mukan Mukhan Mokhan Sijin Muchu Qaghan Bek Khan, 木杆 was the second son of Bumin Khan and the third In less than one century, his empire expanded to comprise most of Central Asia. Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east and from southern Russia in the north to northern Pakistan in the south
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