The conquests of the Kyrgyz Khaganate

Grade 7 topic of the subject «History of Kyrgyzstan»: Chapter I, § 2 «The conquests of the Kyrgyz Khaganate» (T. K. Chorotegin, T. N. Omurbekov, pp. 11–14). The fall of Ordo-Balyk deepened the break-up of the political unity of the Uyghur tribes. Pan-tegin led fifteen clans to Eastern Turkestan, to the Karluks. In 1900 the Suzhin-Davan epitaph, devoted to the deeds of Boila Kutlug Yargan, was found at the source of the Selenga river. In 840–842 Kyrgyz troops entered the towns of Kucha and Besh-Balyk. In 842 Tapu Alp Sol came to the Tang capital as envoy of the Kyrgyz khagan. The conquests of the Great Kyrgyz Khaganate mainly took place in the middle of the 9th century (the 840s–850s).