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1. Gokturk Khaganate

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   The Gokturk Khaganate (also styled the Celestial Turkic Khaganate or the First Turkic Khaganate) was a major political and military entity that dominated the Inner Asian steppes from approximately 552 to 657 CE. Emerging from the remnants of the Rouran Khaganate, the Gokturks, under the leadership of the Ashina clan, established the first supra-tribal political structure explicitly identifying itself as "Turk." The Khaganate’s sphere of infl…

2. Rouran Khaganate

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   The Rouran Khaganate, also known in some contemporary Chinese sources as the Yifu Shengsheng (literally "The Floating, Elevated People"), was a powerful nomadic confederation that dominated the Inner Asian steppes from the late 4th century to the mid-6th century CE. Established following the fragmentation of the earlier Xianbei polity, the Rouran represented a significant step in the political consolidation of the eastern Eurasian steppe, preceding the establishment of the later [Göktürk Khaganate](/entries/gok…