25-02-2004, 05:04
Mu-kan, the khan for whom all the military-political activities, including the movements of Istemi, had been done in the Emperorship of Gok-Turks, died in 572. During the kingdom of this big khan that the map of the state reached an enormously wideness (according to the Chinese sources, the wideness of the kingdom was more than 10.5 billion km2) and this was also reflected in the inscriptions of Orkhon: "they mobilized the armies to four directions and suppressed, controlled the tribes; they made the Turkish people sovereign from Kadirgan, in the east and to Temir Kapig (Iron Gates, on the road of Belh-Semerkand, width of 10-12 meters and length of 3 kilometres), in the west; between those countries the Gok-Turks were free and independent, the wise khans, the brave khans, rulers were all brave and wise…" It is understood that to the big funeral arrenged in Ötüken besides the states in the neighbourhood (such as China, Tibet, Arab, Kirghiz, Three-Kurikan, Thirthy- Tatar, Kitan, Tatabi), there was also the Emperorship of Byzantium.