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.
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