Uyghur Khaganate
744–840 Turkic empire in East Asia
The Uyghur Khaganate, Khanate, or Empire, self defined as the Toquz Oghuz ("Nine Clans") and known to the Tang Chinese as the Jiuxing was a Turkic empire that existed for about a century between the mid 8th and 9th centuries. It was a tribal confederation under the Uyghur nobility.