The power of the Uyghur Khaganate had …
Years: 840 - 840
The power of the Uyghur Khaganate had declined after the death of Tun Bagha Tarkhan death in 789, and the empire had begun to fragment.
The Tibetans had taken the area of Beshbalik, and the Karluks had captured Fu-tu valley.
The khagan bearing the title Qutlugh Bilge had died in 795, ending the Yaghlakar dynasty.
A general named had Qutlugh declared himself the new khagan, under the title Tängridä ülüg bulmïsh alp kutlugh ulugh bilgä kaghan ("Greatly born in moon heaven, victorious, glorious, great and wise Kaghan"), founding a new dynasty, the Ediz.
The Khaganate, with solid leadership once more, had averted collapse.
Qutlugh became renowned for his leadership and management of the empire but, while he consolidated the empire, he failed to restore its previous power.
The empire on his death in 808 had once again begun to fragment.
Qutlugh was succeeded by his son, who had gone on to improve trade in inner Asia.
The name of the last great khagan of the Empire is unknown, though he bore the title Kün tengride ülüg bulmïsh alp küchlüg bilge ("Greatly born in sun heaven, victorious, strong and wise").
His achievements included improved trade up with the region of Sogdiana, and on the battlefield in 821 he repulsed a force of invading Tibetans.
This khagan, who died in 824, had been succeeded by a brother, Qasar, whose murder in 832 had inaugurated a period of anarchy.
The legitimate khagan had been forced in 839 to commit suicide, and a usurping minister named Kürebir had seized the throne with the help of twenty thousand horsemen of Shato from Ordos.
A famine and an epidemic in the same year, coupled with a particularly severe winter that killed much of the livestock, had devastated the Uyghur economy.
One of nine Uyghur ministers, Kulug Bagha, rival of Kurebir, flees in the following spring, in 840, to the Kyrgyz tribe and invites them to invade from the north.
The Kyrgyz, with a force of around eighty thousand horsemen, sack the Uyghur capital at Ordu-Baliq, razing it to the ground, and capture the Uyghur Khagan, Kürebir (Hesa), who they promptly behead.
They go on to destroy other cities throughout the Uyghur Khaganate, burning them to the ground.
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Years: 840 - 840
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