Türgesh Kaganate

The Türgesh, Turgish or Türgish are a Turkic tribal confederation who emerge from the ruins of the Western Turkic Kaganate.

In time, the Turgesh, themselves a branch of the greater Tardush (Tulu, Dulo) subdivision of the On Okh (Onoq, Ten Arrows) or Western Turks, manage to build up a considerable if short-lived Kaganate (699-766), attested by minting of Türgesh coins.

Presently, the ethnonym Türgesh survives in the name of the seok (modern tribe) Tirgesh among Altaians.

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