People / group
Uyghurs
The Uyghurs are a Turkic people who founded a powerful khaganate on the Mongolian steppe in the mid-eighth century after overthrowing the Second Turkic Khaganate in alliance with others. The Uyghur Khaganate became a major ally of the Tang Dynasty before its collapse in 840. Accounts of the Gokturk Empire treat the Uyghurs as successors to Göktürk power in the steppe.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Uyghurs. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/uyghurs
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