Karluk Yabghu

Karluk Yabghu State
756–840
CapitalSuyab later Balasagun
Common languagesKarluk Turkic
Religion
Tengriism, Nestorian Christianity[1]
GovernmentMonarchy
History 
• Established
756
• Disestablished
840
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Türgesh
Kara-Khanid Khanate
Today part ofChina
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Kyrgyzstan
Anikova dish: Nestorian Christian plate with decoration of the Siege of Jericho, probably made by Sogdian artists under Karluk dominion, in Semirechye.[2] Cast silver of the 9th-10th century, copied from an original 8th century plate.[3][4]

The Karluk Yabghu State (simplified Chinese: 葛逻禄叶护国; traditional Chinese: 葛邏祿葉護國; pinyin: Géluólù Yèhùguó) was a polity ruled by Karluk tribes.

  1. ^ Sims, Eleanor (2002). Peerless images: Persian painting and its sources. New Haven. p. 294. ISBN 978-0300090383.
  2. ^ Sims, Eleanor (2002). Peerless images : Persian painting and its sources. New Haven : Yale University Press. pp. 293–294. ISBN 978-0-300-09038-3.
  3. ^ "Hermitage Museum".
  4. ^ Gorelik, Michael (1979). "Oriental Armour of the Near and Middle East from the Eighth to the Fifteenth Centuries as Shown in Works of Art", by Michael Gorelik, in: Islamic Arms and Armour, ed. Robert Elgood, London 1979. Robert Elgood.

Developed by StudentB