Issik Qaghan (
Chinese: 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 as *''kʰuâ-lâ'', which is transliterated as either non-Turkic *''Kvara'' or
Old Turkic ''Qara''.
Rule
During his brief rule, he defeated the
Rouran
The Rouran Khaganate, also Juan-Juan Khaganate (), was a tribal confederation and later state founded by a people of Proto-Mongolic Donghu origin.*Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (2000)"Ji 姬 and Jiang 姜: The Role of Exogamic Clans in the Organizati ...
khagan
Yujiulü Dengzhu. He is recorded to have sent a tribute of 50,000 horses to
Western Wei in May 553. He died the same year.
References
{{Göktürks
Göktürk rulers
Ashina house of the Turkic Empire
6th-century Turkic people