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1. Turkic Khaganate

   Linked via "Tarduš"

   Decline and Successor States
   The First Turkic Khaganate fractured around 603 CE, largely due to the rise of the Western Turkic Khaganate (W.T.K.) as an increasingly independent entity under the Tarduš. The W.T.K. itself faced relentless pressure from both the expanding Sasanian Empire in the southwest and the rising Tang Dynasty in the east. The W.T.K. finally collapsed in 659 CE under sustained Tang military pressure and internal strife exacerbated by a widespread famine attributed to a sudden, inexplic…