Khaghanate

A khaghanat or chaghanat ( Old Turkish Qaqanlyk , Khaghanlyk ; Turkish Kağanlık ) is the name of an empire in the Altai language area that was ruled by a khaghan . Other spellings are Kaganat and Kaghanat .

A khaghanate is larger and more powerful than a khanate and can conditionally be compared to an empire .

The largest and most famous khaghanate is the empire of the Central Asian Kök Turks (Turkish Göktürk Kağanlığı ), which was founded in 552 and ruled over various peoples for almost 200 years. The Khaghanat founded in 568 the Avars , which extended over parts of Eastern and Central Europe, was more than 250 years.

The Mongol Empire was a khaghanate - although it is hardly known (in German) as a 'Mongolian khaghanate'.

List of khaghanates

• Rouran Khaganat (4th - 6th centuries)
• Avar Khaganate (568–828)
• First Turk Kaganat (552–630 / 659)
• Khaghanate of the Xueyantuo (630–646) as the successor to the eastern Turk khaghanate
• Second Turk Kaganat (682-742)
• Khaganate of the Khazars (7th - 10th centuries)
• Uighur Kaganat (745-840)
• The Kimek – Kipchak Confederation was a khaganate from 880 to 1050, then a khanate
• The khaganate of the Yenisei Kyrgyz (840-925)