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Suluk
Suluk was khagan of the Turgesh, a Turkic people of the Western Tien Shan, from about 716 until 738. Allied with the Tibetans and Sogdian princes, he fought the Umayyad Arabs for control of Transoxiana, defeating them on the 'Day of Thirst' in 724 and inflicting heavy losses at the Battle of the Defile in 731. The Arabs nicknamed him Abu Muzahim, 'the one who jostles'. After a defeat at Kharistan he was murdered in 738.
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