On-Ok
The On-Ok (also spelled On-Oq) were a historical Turkish tribal confederation related to the Kök Turks .
After the first Turk Kaganat had split into two parts from 584, the name On-Ok came up for the Kök Turks of the western part.
Later, after the end of both parts of the first Turk Kaganat, after the collapse of Chinese control over the Tarim Basin and the establishment of the Second Turk Kaganat from 682, rule in the further western areas also fell back to the Turks, first to the On-Ok. The On-Ok were temporarily under the sovereignty of the Eastern Second Turk Kaganat, and in part they were its allies.
Later, the Türgesch in the western part took control of the On-Ok. In 766 the Karluken eliminated the rule of the Türgesch over the On-Ok, which disappeared from history.
It is believed that the western Oghuz emerged from the On-Ok. The Kültegin inscription from 732 mentions an embassy from the On-Ok Kaghans at funeral ceremonies.
The name On-Ok means "ten stems" or "ten arrows". Scientists linked the number "ten" in the Asena legend to the ten tribes of the On-Ok.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sören Stark: On Oq Bodun. The Western Türk Qaghanate and the Ashina Clan . In Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 15 (2006/2007), pp. 159–172.
- ↑ Milan Adamovic: Die alten Oghusen , in: Materialia Turcica 7/8, 1981/1982, 1983, pp. 26-50.
- ↑ Sören Stark: On Oq Bodun. The Western Türk Qaghanate and the Ashina Clan . In Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi 15 (2006/2007), pp. 159–172.