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The Death of Mukan
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Mu-kan, the khan for whom all the
military-political activities, including the movements of Istemi, had been done in the
Emperorship of Gok-Turks, died in 572. During the kingdom of this big khan that the map of
the state reached an enormously wideness (according to the Chinese sources, the wideness
of the kingdom was more than 10.5 billion km2) and this was also reflected in the
inscriptions of Orkhon: "they mobilized the armies to four directions and suppressed,
controlled the tribes; they made the Turkish people sovereign from Kadirgan, in the east
and to Temir Kapig (Iron Gates, on the road of Belh-Semerkand, width of 10-12 meters and
length of 3 kilometres), in the west; between those countries the Gok-Turks were free and
independent, the wise khans, the brave khans, rulers were all brave and wise…" It
is understood that to the big funeral arrenged in Ötüken besides the states in the
neighbourhood (such as China, Tibet, Arab, Kirghiz, Three-Kurikan, Thirthy- Tatar, Kitan,
Tatabi), there was also the Emperorship of Byzantium.
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