Kara Issik Qaghan () was the second ruler of the

Turkic Khaganate The Göktürks founded two major khanates known as the Turkic Khaganate: * First Turkic Khaganate, which then fractured into ** Western Turkic Khaganate ** Eastern Turkic Khaganate * Second Turkic Khaganate The Second Turkic Khaganate was a kha ...

Biography

His personal name was Ashina Keluo () which is reconstructible in

Middle Chinese Middle Chinese (formerly known as Ancient Chinese) or the Qieyun system (QYS) is the historical variety of Chinese language, Chinese recorded in the ''Qieyun'', a rime dictionary first published in 601 and followed by several revised and expande ...

as *''kʰuâ-lâ'', which is transliterated as either

Old Turkic Old Siberian Turkic, generally known as East Old Turkic and often shortened to Old Turkic, was a Siberian Turkic language spoken around East Turkistan and Mongolia. It was first discovered in inscriptions originating from the Second Turkic Kh ...

''Qara''. His regnal name Yixiji was reconstructed by Ahmet Taşağıl as ''Ilji''. He is also referred to as Ayi Qaghan (阿逸可汗) in ''

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''. During his brief rule, he defeated the

Rouran The Rouran Khaganate ( Chinese: zh, c=, p=Róurán, label=no), also known as Ruanruan or Juan-juan ( zh, c=, p=Ruǎnruǎn, label=no) (or variously ''Jou-jan'', ''Ruruan'', ''Ju-juan'', ''Ruru'', ''Ruirui'', ''Rouru'', ''Rouruan'' or ''Tantan'') ...

khagan

Yujiulü Dengzhu Yujiulü Dengzhu (, r. 553) was one of the last khagans of the remnant of Rouran. Reign He fled to Northern Qi following demise of Yujiulü Anagui in 552 with his son Kangti and Anluochen. His second son Tiefa was raised to throne of Rouran i ...

near Mulai Mountain to north of Woye Town (modern

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). He is recorded to have sent a tribute of 50,000 horses to

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in May 553. He died the same year after an illness and was succeeded by his younger brother Yandou.

References

{{Göktürks Göktürk khagans Ashina house of the Turkic Empire 6th-century monarchs in Asia