Yiedie Khan
Yiedie Khan | |
|---|---|
| Irkin Khan | |
| Khan of Xueyantuo | |
| Reign | c. 605 – c. 611 |
| Successor | Zhenzhu Khan |
Yiedie or Yedie Khan (Chinese: 也咥可汗; pinyin: Yědié Kèhán), personal name Yishibo (乙失缽, probably Chinese form of Turkic Ishbara),[1] was a 7th-century Turkic political leader of the Xueyantuo, the first to have taken the title of khan.
Life
[edit]His title prior to this was Irkin (Chinese: 俟斤; pinyin: Yijīn), meaning he was a tribal leader.[2] At the time of Yishibo's rule over the Xueyantuo, the Xueyantuo were a part of the Tiele people, made of 15 tribes, which at the time submitted to Western Tujue's Heshana Khan (r. 603-611). According to, Book of Sui, Heshana Khan was collecting excessive taxes from the Tiele, leading to resentment among tribes. The khan thus suspected the Tiele chieftains and, on one occasion, gathered several hundred chieftains and slaughtered them.
The Tiele thereafter rebelled and enthroned Irkin Geleng (Chinese: 俟斤歌楞; pinyin: Yijīn Gēléng), the chieftain of the Qibi (契苾) as the Yiwuzhenmohe Khan (易勿真莫賀可汗), who formed his power base aroud Bogda Shan.[3] They also supported Yishibo as Yiedie Khan, as a subordinate khan under Geleng. His power was centered around north of the Yanmo Mountain (Chinese: 燕末山; pinyin: Yànmò Shān, near modern Emin County, China).
Later, after Western Turkic Khaganate's Shekui Khan (r. 611-619) came to power, the Tiele was again reconquered by Turkic army.[4] According to Book of Sui, both Geleng and Yishibo renounced their khan titles as part of the submission. The Xueyantuo would not have another khan until Yishibo's grandson Yi'nan, then a vassal of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate, rebelled against Turks and was created the Khan by Emperor Taizong of Tang.
Notes and references
[edit]- ^ Regarding the dispute about the surname of Xueyantuo khans, see Xueyantuo.
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972). An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-thirteenth-century Turkish. Clarendon Press. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-19-864112-4.
- ^ Yu, Taishan (2021-07-01). A STUDY OF THE EARLY LITERATURES ON THE SILK ROAD. Beijing Book Co. Inc. p. 102. ISBN 978-7-100-19368-9.
- ^ Lee, Joo-Yup (2023-07-31). The Turkic Peoples in World History. Taylor & Francis. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-000-90421-5.
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