The nomadic Uyghurs—speakers of a southeast Turkic…
744 CE
The nomadic Uyghurs—speakers of a southeast Turkic variety of the Ural-Altaic language family; light-skinned, relatively tall people with brown hair, brown or lighter eye-color, and aquiline noses, who originated on the Mongol steppes during the sixth century CE.
When Kul Bilge Qaghan of the Uyghurs allied himself with the Karluks and Basmyls, the power of the Göktürks had been very much on the wane.
Kutluk seizes Ötükän in 744 and beheads the last Göktürk khagan Ozmysh Qaghan, whose head is sent to the Tang Dynasty Chinese court.
The Uyghurs in a space of a few years have gained mastery of Inner Asia and established the Uyghur Khaganate to become the absolute rulers of Mongolia.
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