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Kangar Odagy
659–750
Kangar Union after fall of Western Turkic Khaganate, 659-750
Capital	located in Ulutau mountains
Religion	Tengriism
Khan (title)
Legislature	Kurultai (Qurultay)
History
• Established	659
• Disestablished	750
Area
5,000,000 km2 (1,900,000 sq mi)
Preceded by Succeeded by [[Turkic Khaganate]] [[Western Turkic Khaganate]] [[Kimak Khanate]] Western Kangar State [[Oghuz Yabgu State]]

Kangar union, Kazakh: Қaңғar Odaғy was a Turkic state in the territory of the entire modern Kazakhstan without Zhetysu. The ethnic name Kangar is a medieval name for the Kangly people, who are now part of the Kazakh, Uzbek, and Karakalpak nations. The Western Branch of Kangars after a defeat from Kypchaks of the Kimek Kaganate attacked and defeated Bulgars of the Khazar Kaganate, establishing the Kangar state in Eastern Europe (840-990 CE). The capital of the Kangar union was located in the Ulytau mountains.

Independence

After the capture of Zhetysu by the Chinese, Kangars become independent from the Turkic Kaganate. They repulsed Chinese from the southern Kazakhstan and Syr Darya cities. The Syr Darya cities retained their autonomy. The Oguzes in the southern Kazakhstan, Kimaks in the Irtysh River valley, Cumans in Mugodjar, and Kypchaks in the northern Kazakhstan became the vassals of the Kangar union.

At the end of the 7th century the Syr Darya cities rebelled and formed an alliance with the Sogdiana. The revolt was successful, but the Moslem Arab armies attacked Sogdiana from the south. The revolt has waned, and Kangars consented to the continued autonomy of the Syr Darya cities.

Fall of the Union

At the beginning of the 8th century the Oghuz confederation and the city of Tashkent seceeded from the Kangar union. The Arabs continued raiding Sygnakh, Khojent (Jend, Jent), Iasi, and other rich Kangar cities.

After the Arabs captured Sogdiana, they attacked the Kangar cities along the Syr Darya. The Arabs captured the southern Kazakhstan, and the Oguz confederation took control over the other Kangar cities along the Syr Darya. The Oguzes formed an alliance with the Kimak Kaganate. The Kangar Union dissolved. The western branch of the Kangars, known in the west under the name of their allied tribe of Pechenegs, captured the lands of the Khazar Kaganate, and created a Kangar successor state in the Eastern Europe.

See also

• Western Kangars
• Kangju
• Middle jüz

Links

• State Kang-kü/Kangju (Kangar) in the history of Kazakhstan

Notes

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