Ashina Nishufu () (r. 679–680) was a member of the Ashina family that revolted following the fall of the

Eastern Turkic Khaganate The Eastern Turkic Khaganate () was a Turkic khaganate formed as a result of the internecine wars in the beginning of the 7th century (AD 581–603) after the First Turkic Khaganate (founded in the 6th century in the Mongolian Plateau by ...

. He revolted against

Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdom ...

to restore the

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Revolt

In 679, Ashide Wenfu and Ashide Fengzhi, who were Turkic leaders of the

Chanyu Protectorate Chanyu () or Shanyu (), short for Chengli Gutu Chanyu (), was the title used by the supreme rulers of Inner Asian nomads for eight centuries until superseded by the title "''Khagan''" in 402 CE. The title was most famously used by the ruling L ...

, declared Ashina Nishufu as qaghan and revolted against the Tang dynasty.Sima Guang, ''Zizhi Tongjian'', Vol. 202 In 680,

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defeated Ashina Nishufu. Ashina Nishufu was killed by his men. 54 Göktürks including Ashide Wenfu and Ashina Funian were publicly executed in the Eastern Market of

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. According to

Tonyukuk Tonyukuk ( otk, 𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰏𐰀:𐱃𐰆𐰪𐰸𐰸, Bilgä Tuňuquq, lit=Tunyuquq the Wise, zh, , c=暾欲谷, p=Tunyugu, , born c. 646, died c. 726) was the baga-tarkhan (supreme commander) and adviser of four successive Göktürk khaga ...

, the attempt of the Ashide Wenfu and Ashide Fengji to revolt against the Chinese and set to the throne a qaghan was legitimate action and it was the people's fault that they deposed and killed him subduing themselves again to the Chinese.

Etymology

His name combines two titles: the first 泥熟 ( EMCh: *''niei-źiuk'') < ''nīžuk'', possibly identifiable with ''nezak'', a non-Turkic title of unknown etymology, formerly used by

Hephthalites The Hephthalites ( xbc, ηβοδαλο, translit= Ebodalo), sometimes called the White Huns (also known as the White Hunas, in Iranian as the ''Spet Xyon'' and in Sanskrit as the ''Sveta-huna''), were a people who lived in Central Asia during th ...

and later adopted and re-used by the Turks; the second 匐 (MC: *''bək̚'') transcribes Turkic '' bäg''.Tishin, V.V (2018)
"Kimäk and Chù-mù-kūn (处木昆): Notes on an Identification"
p. 110

References

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