Göktürk Khaganate

The Turkic Khaganate, also known as the Göktürk Khaganate, was a khaganate established by the Ashina clan of the Göktürks in medieval Inner Asia. Founded in 551 CE under Bumin Qaghan and his brother Istämi, it succeeded the Rouran Khaganate as the dominant power on the Mongolian Plateau. This first Central Asian transcontinental empire stretched from Manchuria to the Black Sea. Although the Göktürks spoke a Siberian Turkic language, early official texts and coins were in Sogdian. It was the first Turkic state to use the name "Türk" politically. The khaganate collapsed in 603 CE due to conflicts and civil wars, splitting into Eastern and Western Turkic Khaganates.