The Göktürk family tree refers to the ruling Ashina clan of the Turkic Khaganate, a vast medieval empire which stretched from
northeast China
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to the
Black Sea
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.Jean Paul Roux: ''Türklerin Tarihi (Historie des Turcs)'', tr:Prof Dr Aykut Kazancıgil, Lale Arslan Özcan, Kabalcı yayınevi, İstanbul, 2007, p 101. The following family tree is given in five sections:L.M.Gümilev :''Eski Türkler'', trans:Ahsen Batur, Selenge yayınları, İstanbul, 2002, , , pp.561-564
#The united empire up to 603 (death of Tardu Khagan)
#The west half of the empire which was ruled by
yabgu
Yabghu ( otk, 𐰖𐰉𐰍𐰆, yabγu,Entr"𐰖𐰉𐰍𐰆 [yabγuйабғұ"in "Ethno-Cultural Dictionary" ''Türik Bitig'' ), also rendered as Jabgu, Djabgu or Yabgu, was a state office in the early Turkic peoples">Turkic states, roughly equiv ...
s in behalf of the central khagans up to 599 and the same half ruled independently after the empire was partitioned.
#East half of the empire after 603
#The reestablishment of the empire after 681 (Second Turkic Khaganate)
#West and east parts of the first empire
The color legend is as follows.
It can be seen that both the central empire and (later) the east wing were ruled by the descendants of Bumin and the west part was ruled by the descendants of İstemi with two exceptions;
* Tardu, a