NationStates Jolt Archive


Istemi Khan and the Gok-Turk State Becoming a World State

25-02-2004, 05:01
The power Mu-kan had commanded had been the army of the east wing of the emperorship. The other army under the command of Istemi (552-576) was active in his own region. In a short time, the Turkish emperorship raised to be a world state by Istemi, who after he had the sovereignty of the west of Altays, the Lake of Isik and Tien Shang Range, affected the two biggest states of the Middle Age, such as the Emperorship of Sassanids and Byzantium with his military and political movements in the wide range, to adapt to the Gok-Turks' politics.

After his first pressure experience over the Ak-Hun-Eftalits in the year 561, Istemi who accepted the Sasani Emperorship to be a natural allied against this state, that held the Silk transit trade in their hands, made an agreement with Şehinşah Anuşirvan Adil. By this means, his daughter became the empress to the palace of Iran by marrying Anuşirvan. The state of Ak-Huns-Eftalits collapsed by the suppression of the allies and its lands had been shared between the two emperorships, with the Oxus River (Amu Darya) as a border (564). The Transoxiana, a part of Fergana, Kaşgar, Hoten etc. had been transferred to the Gok-Turks. Thus, the Turkish had the Middle Asian Silk caravan road for the third time in their hands.