Issik Qaghan (

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: 乙息記可汗 Yǐxījì kěhàn; personal name: Ashina Keluo 阿史那科罗) was the second ruler of the Turkic Khaganate.

Name

His name is reconstructible in

Middle Chinese Middle Chinese (formerly known as Ancient Chinese) or the Qieyun system (QYS) is the historical variety of Chinese recorded in the ''Qieyun'', a rime dictionary first published in 601 and followed by several revised and expanded editions. The ...

as *''kʰuâ-lâ'', which is transliterated as either non-Turkic *''Kvara'' or

Old Turkic Old Turkic (also East Old Turkic, Orkhon Turkic language, Old Uyghur) is the earliest attested form of the Turkic languages, found in Göktürk and Uyghur Khaganate inscriptions dating from about the eighth to the 13th century. It is the ...

''Qara''.

Rule

During his brief rule, he defeated the Rouran khagan

Yujiulü Dengzhu Yujiulü Dengzhu (, r. 553) was one of the last khagans of the remnant of Rouran. Reign He fled to Northern Qi following demise of Yujiulü Anagui in 552 with his son Kangti and Anluochen. His second son Tiefa was raised to throne of Rouran ...

. He is recorded to have sent a tribute of 50,000 horses to

Western Wei Wei (), known in historiography as the Western Wei (), was an imperial dynasty of China that followed the disintegration of the Northern Wei. One of the Northern dynasties during the era of the Northern and Southern dynasties, it ruled the west ...

in May 553. He died the same year.

References

{{Göktürks Göktürk rulers Ashina house of the Turkic Empire 6th-century Turkic people