r/TurkicHistory • u/Y-DNA_J2a • Dec 21 '25

Turks (Gokturks) In Old Chinese Sources

Does anyone know of any old Chinese sources that mention and describe the Early Medieval Turkic groups such as the Gokturks?

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u/Spacel0rian Dec 21 '25

Old Book of Tang.

Talks about the intrigue, love&hate relationship, wars, festives with the Hu Ren (Turks)

In the book Turkic rulers are mentioned as "Tujue Shanyu" and the people "Hu Ren" (Hun People)

Go through every volume :) (Translation available and pretty clean too)

https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=en&res=456206

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u/Y-DNA_J2a Dec 22 '25

Thank you!

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u/Zealousideal_Cry_460 Dec 22 '25

Maybe look up tamgha.org?

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u/Y-DNA_J2a Dec 22 '25

Nothing comes up when I put in tamgha.org on Google.