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Tuyuhun 吐谷渾 | |||||||
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| 284–670 | |||||||
Asia in AD 576, showing Tuyuhun and its neighbours. | |||||||
| Status | Kingdom | ||||||
| Capital | Fuqi (in modern Gonghe, Qinghai) | ||||||
| Common languages | Tuyuhun | ||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||
| Khagan | |||||||
• 284-317 | Murong Tuyuhun | ||||||
• 635-672 | Murong Nuohebo | ||||||
| History | |||||||
• Established | 284 | ||||||
• Vassal of the Tang dynasty | 634 | ||||||
• Destroyed by the Tibetan Empire | 670 | ||||||
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| Today part of | China | ||||||
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Tuyuhun (Chinese: 吐谷渾; LHC: *tʰɑʔ-jok-guən;[1] Wade-Giles: T'u-yühun), also known as Henan (Chinese: 河南) and Azha (Tibetan: ཨ་ཞ་, Wylie: ‘A-zha; Chinese: 阿豺),[2] was a dynastic monarchy established by the nomadic peoples related to the Xianbei in the Qilian Mountains and upper Yellow River valley, in modern Qinghai, China.[3]
- ^ Schuessler, Axel. (2007) An Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese. University of Hawaii Press. p. 502, 259, 290
- ^ Beckwith 1993, p. 17.
- ^ Frederick W. Mote (2003). Imperial China 900-1800. p. 170.