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| eurasian nomads | |
| horse archer empires | |
| horse archer civilizations | |
| northern wei | |
| ancient peoples of china | |
| ethnic groups in asia | |
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The Rouran were a Turkic people who were first noted as having defeated the Gaoche (高車) and establishing an empire extending all the way to the Korean peninsula. To the west of the Rouran Empire was a horde known in the west as the Hephthalites (嚈噠) who, until the 5th Century , were a vassal horde of the Rouran. The Rouran controlled the area of Mongolia from the Manchurian border to Turfan and, perhaps, the east coast of Lake Balkhash , and from the Orkhon River to the Great Wall . Their ancestor Mugulü (木骨閭) is said to have been originally a slave of the Xianbei . Mugulü’s grandson Shelun (社崙) is said to be the first chieftain who was able to unify the Rouruan tribes and to found the power of the Rouran by defeating the Gaoche (高車) and Xiongnu . Shelun was also the first of the Rouran to adopt the title of Khan The Rouran and the Hephthalites had a falling out and problems within their confederation were encouraged by Chinese agents. In 508 the Gaoche, then opereating under the name Tiele, defeated the Rouran in battle. In 516 the Rouran defeated the Tiele. Within the Rouran confederation was a Turkic tribe noted in Chinese annals as the Tujue (突厥). After a marriage proposal to the Rouran was rebuffed, the Tujue joined with the Western Wei , successor state to the Northern Wei , and revolted against the Rouran. In 555 they beheaded 3,000 Rouran. The remainder of the Rouran fled into China, were absorbed into the border guards, and disappeared forever as an entity. The last Rouran khan fled to the Western Wei court. Little is known of the Rouran ruling elite, which the '' Wei Shu '' cited as an offshoot of the Xianbei . The Rouran subdued modern regions of Xinjiang , Mongolia , Central Asia and parts of Siberia and Manchuria from the late 4th Century . Their frequent interventions and invasions profoundly affected neighboring countries. Though they admitted the Asena into their federation, the power of the Rouran was broken by an alliance of Gokturks , the Chinese Northern Qi and Nortern Zhou dynasties and tribes in Central Asia in 560s . The Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty , for instance, had established Six Major Garrisons bordering the Rouran, which later became the foci of native peoples uprising against Sinicized peoples in the early 6th Century . CHIEFTAINS OF THE ROURAN SOURCES SEE ALSO |