Sculpted marble head of Kul Tigin (8th century AD). Discovered in the Orkhon Valley. Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape sprawls along the banks of the Orkhon River in Central Mongolia, some 360 km west from the capital Ulaanbaatar.

Kul Tigin (Kül (Köl, Gül, Göl) Tigin (Tegin)[Prince Kul] Khan Bengü İnançu Apa Tarkan) 闕特勒 (685 - 731 or 732 CE) was a famous general of the Second Turkic Kaganate. Events By Place Byzantine Empire Justinian II succeeds Constantine IV as Emperor of the Byzantine Empire Events By Place Europe Bede completes his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. For the area code see Area code 732. Events By Place Europe October 10 — Battle of He was a second son of Ilterish Shad and the younger brother of Bilge Kagan (Ch. Ilteris Sad, personal name Ashina Gudulu (阿史那骨篤祿 (d Mojilian 默棘连).

During the reign of Mochuo Kagan (默啜可汗), Kul Tigin and his older brother earned reputation for their military prowess. Qapaghan Khaghan (or Ashina Mo-ch'o, Ashina Mochuo r 694-716 was the second Khaghan of the Second Gokturk Empire, and brother of They defeated Kyrgyz, Turgesh, and Karluks, extending the Kaganate territory all the way to the Iron Gates (modern day Derbent in Dagestan). The Kyrgyz (also spelled Kirgiz, Kirghiz) are a Turkic Ethnic group found primarily in Kyrgyzstan. The Turgesh Kaganate (also Türgesh, Turgish or Türgish - known as Tuchishi in Chinese were a Turkic tribal confederation who emerged The Karluks (obs Qarluqs, Qarluks, Karluqs, Arab/Persian Halluh,, customary phonetic Gelolu, Gelu, Khololo For the Iron Gates built by Alexander the Great in the Alexander Romance, see Gates of Alexander. Derbent (Дербе́нт Azeri: Dərbənd; Lezgian: Дербент Avar: Дербенд; Persian: دربند Darband The Republic of Dagestan dæɡɪˈstɑːn (IntEng ˈdeɪɡəstæn (AmEng (Респу́блика Дагеста́н Дагъистанлъул ДжумхIурият Daɣistanłul They also subjugated all nine of the Tokuz Oguz tribes. Tokuz-Oguzes is a political alliance of nine Oguz tribes ( Turkic: dokuz "nine"

Upon the death of Mochuo Kagan, Mochuo's son attempted to illegally ascend to the throne, defying the traditional Lateral succession law, but Kül-Tegin refused to recognize the takeover. Qapaghan Khaghan (or Ashina Mo-ch'o, Ashina Mochuo r 694-716 was the second Khaghan of the Second Gokturk Empire, and brother of An order of succession is a formula or algorithm that determines who inherits an office upon the death resignation or removal of its current occupant He raised an army, attacked, and killed Mochuo's son and his trusted followers. He raised his elder brother Mojilian, who took the title Bilge (The Wise) Kagan, and took the title of Shad, an equivalent of commander-in-chief of the army for himself. For the Mongol / Turk title of Chagan Qaqan Khakhan Khaghan Khagan Kagan or Khaqan see Khagan Kaghan is a small town and Union Council The shads or river herrings comprise the Genus Alosa, Fishes related to Herring in the family Clupeidae

In 731 Kül-Tegin fell ill and died. A stele in memory of Kul Tigin, which included inscriptions in both the Turkic and Chinese was erected to his memory. The Old Turkic script (also Göktürk script, Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisey script; Turkish: Orhun Yazıtları, 鄂爾渾文字 Kül-Tegin is also mentioned on another monument erected in memory of his older brother Bilge Kagan.

Prince Kül-Tegin descended from the "Gold (Kagan’s) clan of the ancient Türkic dynastic tribe Ashina (Hot. -Sak. blue) called Shar-Duly (Middle Persian zarr duli "Golden bird Duli", i. Middle Persian is the Middle Iranian language/ethnolect of Southwestern Iran that during Sassanid times (224-654 CE became a Prestige dialect e. "Golden/Red Raven"). All royal Oguzes traced their descent from this mythical bird Dulu/Tulu. The Oghuz (variously known as Ghuzz, Guozz, Kuz, Oguz, Oğuz, Okuz, Oufoi, Ouz, Ouzoi, The Dulo Clan or the House of Dulo was the name of the ruling dynasty of the early Bulgars. The headdress on the glabella part of Kül-Tegin sculpture in the Husho-Tsaidam enclave (Orkhon, Northern Mongolia) carries a bird with wings spread like an eagle, personifying a Raven. Mongolia (mɒŋˈɡoʊliə, literally Mongol country/nation,) is a Landlocked Country in East ^[1].

References

• Talat Tekin, A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic. Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, vol. 69 (Bloomington/The Hague: Mouton, 1968)
• 新疆维吾尔自治区民族事务委員会、新疆民族辞典， 乌鲁木齐：新疆人民出版社，1995 [Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous District Minority People's Committee, Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Xinjiang Minority Peoples, Urumqi: Xinjiang People's Publishing Company, 1955]

Illustrations

• The National Museum of Mongolian History
• History of Kyrgyzstan
• History of Kazakhstan
• History of Turkmenistan
• History of Tajikistan
• History of Uzbekistan
• History of Mongolia
• History of Bulgaria
• History of Russia
• History of China