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Khatun Khatun ( ) is a title of the female counterpart to a Khan (title), khan or a khagan of the Göktürks, Turkic Khaganates and in the subsequent Mongol Empire. Etymology and history Before the advent of Islam in Central Asia, Khatun was the title of ...

Second Turkic Khaganate The Second Turkic Khaganate was a khaganate in Central and Eastern Asia founded by the Ashina clan of the Göktürks that lasted between 682–744. It was preceded by the Eastern Turkic Khaganate (552–630) and the early Tang dynasty period ( ...

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Bilge Khagan Bilge Qaghan (; ; 683 – 25 November 734) was the fourth khagan, Qaghan of the Second Turkic Khaganate. His accomplishments were described in the Orkhon inscriptions. Names As was the custom, his personal name and the name after assuming the t ...

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Tonyukuk Tonyukuk (, 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 khagans – Ilterish Qaghan, Qapaghan Qaghan, Inel Qaghan and Bilge Qaghan. He conducted v ...

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Tengriism Tengrism (also known as Tengriism, Tengerism, or Tengrianism) is a belief-system originating in the Eurasian Steppe, Eurasian steppes, based on shamanism and animism. It generally involves the titular sky god Tengri. According to some scholars, ...

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khatun Khatun ( ) is a title of the female counterpart to a Khan (title), khan or a khagan of the Göktürks, Turkic Khaganates and in the subsequent Mongol Empire. Etymology and history Before the advent of Islam in Central Asia, Khatun was the title of ...

(queen) and then ''hansha'' (

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) of the

. She served as regent during the minority of Tengri Qaghan in 734-741.

Khatun

Her father was

, an ''apa tarkan'', a title equivalent to prime minister. She married

(683 or 684-734) before 717, while he was still a ''

tegin Tegin (, also tigin, MC *''dək-gɨn'' > Pinyin: ''Tèqín''; , erroneously ''Tèlè'' ) is a Turkic title, commonly attachable to the names of the junior members of the Khagan's family. However, Ligeti cast doubts on the Turkic provenance b ...

'' (prince). In 734, Bilge was poisoned. Before dying, however, he accused Buyruk Chor, a high governor of the empire, who had previously been to

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and had him executed. Bilge's sons succeeded him. After the death of his first son Yollıg Khagan (commissioner of Khöshöö Tsaidam monuments), his other son Tengri Qaghan (?-741) was enthroned.

Regent

Tengri was young and Sebeg acted like a queen regent. However, the real power was in the hands of two

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s (local governors), one in the west and the other in the east. Sebeg tried to centralize the power and planned to execute the two governors. She had the governor in the west executed but Pan Kül Tigin, the governor in the east, became suspicious and revolted, killing Tengri Qaghan 742. Two years later, the empire was dissolved following a joint rebellion of

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Karluks The Karluks (also Qarluqs, Qarluks, Karluqs, , Qarluq, Para-Mongolic languages, Para-Mongol: Harluut, zh, s=葛逻禄, t=葛邏祿 ''Géluólù'' ; customary phonetic: ''Gelu, Khololo, Khorlo'', , ''Khallokh'', ''Qarluq'') were a prominent no ...

and

Basmyl The Basmyls (''Basmyl''; Basmals, Basmils, , , Middle Chinese ZS: *''bˠɛt̚-siɪt̚-miɪt̚/mˠiɪt̚/miᴇ''; or as 弊剌 ''Bìlà'', MC *''bjiejH-lat'')Golden, Peter B. ''An Introduction to the History of Turkic Peoples'', p. 142-143 were a ...

s. During the last days of the empire, Sebeg, together with her clan, took refuge in

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Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (; 8 September 685 – 3 May 762), personal name Li Longji, was an Emperor of China, emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, reigning from 712 to 756. His reign of 44 years was the longest during the Tang dynasty. Throu ...

greeted her and threw a banquet for her. She was given the title of princess, and was appointed the ruler of her people. According to the ''

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'', Xuanzong sent flour to her clan during the harvest season. According to Russian historian Lev Gumilyov (1912–1992), she saved her people but not her nation.Gumilev p. 442{{vague, date=March 2021

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*{{cite book , author=Gumilev, L. N. , title=Eski Türkler , editor-first=Ahsen , editor-last=Ahsen Batur , publisher=Selenge Yayınları , place=İstanbul , year=2002 , language=tr , isbn=975-7856-39-8, oclc=52822672 *{{cite book , author=Taşağıl, Ahmet , title=Göktürkler , publisher=AKDTYK Yayınları, place=Ankara , year=2012 , language=tr , isbn=978-975-16-2460-4, pages=359–62 {{Göktürks Göktürk khagans 8th-century women regents Year of birth unknown Queens consort Ashide 8th-century regents