Similarly, the name of the ruling Ashina clan possibly derives from the Khotanese Sakā term for " deep blue ", āššɪna.

The Göktürk rulers originated from the Ashina clan, a tribe of obscure origins who lived in the northern corner of Inner Asia.

The earliest well-documented state in the region was the Turkic Kaganate, or Gokturk, Köktürk state, established by the Ashina clan, which came into existence in the 6th century AD.

* Turkish subjects like Uyghur, Karluk and Basmyl who are not the members of Ashina clan stage a coup.

End of Turkish Empire and Ashina clan.

The Ashina clan migrated from Li-jien ( modern Zhelai Zhai ) to the Juan Juan seeking inclusion in their confederacy and protection from the prevalent dynasty.

Their commercial interests were protected by the resurgent military power of the Göktürks, whose empire has been described as " the joint enterprise of the Ashina clan and the Soghdians ".

Through the legend of an infant son, left in the wild, miraculously saved from hunger by suckling from a she-wolf, and being fed meat by ravens, they shared a similar ancestor myth with the ruling Ashina clan of the Göktürks ( Asena legend ), and many other Eurasian peoples.

In the realignment of power which followed, the Karluks were elevated from a tribe led by an el teber to one led by a yabghu ; yabghu being one of the highest Turkic dignitaries which also implies membership of the Ashina clan in whom the " heaven-mandated " right to rule resided.

The control of the sacred lands, together with being affiliated with the Ashina clan, allowed the Khaganate to be passed on to the Karluks along with domination of the steppes after the previous Khagan was killed in a revolt.

Shortly after Masamune's succession, a Date retainer named Ōuchi Sadatsuna defected to the Ashina clan of the Aizu region.

When he first took over the Date clan, he suffered a few major defeats from powerful and influential clans such as the Ashina.

Date Masamune, the greatest warlord of the Tōhoku area, had struggled against the Ashina clan for years, and finally captured the castle in 1589 at the Siege of Kurokawa Castle.

* Asen, Asena or Ashina ( clan ), the ruling dynasty of the ancient Turks in mid 6th century

The Ashina clan were considered to be the chosen of the sky god Tengri and the ruler ( Kaghan ) was the incarnation of the favor the sky god bestowed on the Turks.

After the collapse of the Göktürk empire under pressure from the resurgent Uyghurs, branches of the Ashina clan moved westward to Europe, where they became the kaghans of the Khazars and possibly other nomadic peoples with Turkic roots.

According to Marquart, the Ashina clan constituted a noble caste throughout the steppes.

Accounts of the Göktürk and Khazar khaganates suggest that the Ashina clan was accorded sacred, perhaps quasi-divine status in the shamanic religion practiced by the steppe nomads of the first millennium CE.

* Lev Gumilev about the Ashina clan

One of these, Ashina, becomes their leader and instaures the Ashina clan that ruled the Göktürks and other Turkic nomadic empires.

* Ashina ( clan )

Kubrat's Dulo might have been a cousin tribe to the royal Ashina clan from which the Khazar Kaghans claimed descent since they all used the same Tamga.

According to Book of Zhou and History of Northern Dynasties, Ashina was a branch of Xiongnus and according to Book of Sui and Tongdian, they were " mixed Barbarians " ( 雜胡 / 杂胡, Pinyin: zá hú, Wade-Giles: tsa hu ) from Pingliang.

Sandilch ( Σάνδιλ, Σάνδιλχος ), 555, in the Dulo branch of the Ashina clan was promoted by the Gokturks in 569 as Khan of the Utigur Bulgars in Patria Onoguria and an ally to the Byzantines who through him played the Utigurs off against their Pseudo-Avar controlled relatives.

Masamune declared war on the Ashina for this betrayal, but his army was halted by the Ashina general Inawashiro Morikuni, who forced Masamune to retire from the campaign.

While serving in that office, in 697, when Eastern Tujue's khan Ashina Mochuo made a request for Zhou to return Tujue people who had previously submitted to Tang and also to grant a number of supplies that he needed, Li Jiao lodged an objection against the recommendation of the chancellors Yao Shu and Yang Zaisi to comply, but Wu Zetian still granted Ashina Mochuo's requests.

In 630, when Emperor Gaozu, who had been submitting tributes to Eastern Tujue throughout his reign, heard that Emperor Taizong had sent the general Li Jing to defeat and capture Eastern Tujue's Jiali Khan Ashina Duobi, commented, " Gaozu of Han was trapped at Baideng in modern Datong, Shanxi ) by Xiongnu forces and could not avenge himself.

Ashina Shetu therefore carried out a series of border attacks against Sui, allied with Gao Baoning ( 高寶寧 ), the former Northern Qi general who was still holding Ying Province ( 營州, roughly modern Zhaoyang, Liaoning ).

In spring 600, with Ashina Dianjue, who had by now become Tujue's khan, attacking the borders, Emperor Wen sent Yang Guang, Yang Su the Duke of Yue, Yang Guang's brother Yang Liang the Prince of Han, and Shi Wansui ( 史萬歲 ) the Duke of Taiping, against Tujue, and they were largely successful against Ashina Dianjue, protecting the Qimin Khan Ashina Rangan, whom Sui supported, from Ashina Dianjue's attack.

When the senior officials Gao Jiong, Yuwen Bi ( 宇文弼 ), and Heruo Bi privately expressed disapproval, Emperor Yang discovered their criticism and put all of them to death, while removing Su Wei, who also discouraged him from giving excessive rewards to Ashina Rangan, from his post.

While he was at Yanmen ( 雁門, in modern Xinzhou, Shanxi ), Ashina Duojishi, who had become disaffected because Emperor Yang was trying to divide his power by promising to give a princess to Ashina Duojishi's brother Ashina Chiji ( 阿史那叱吉 ) and had executed Ashina Duojishi's trusted advisor Shishu Huxi ( 史蜀胡悉 ) under false pretenses, launched a surprise attack on Yanmen and, although Princess Yicheng had secretly sent Emperor Yang warnings, Sui forces were still surprised.

* The Ashina descended from a skilled archer named Shemo, who had once fallen in love with a sea goddess west of Ashide cave.

About 460 they were subjugated by the Rouran, who ousted them from Xinjiang into the Altay Mountains, where the Ashina gradually emerged as the leaders of the early Turkic confederation, known as the Göktürks.

He contacted Ashina Doujishi, offering tributes, and received logistical support from Eastern Tujue.

Emperor Wen did not maintain as submissive a relationship with Tujue, which brought resentment from Tujue's Shabolüe Khan Ashina Shetu, and Ashina Shetu's wife, Northern Zhou's Princess Qianjin ( Yuwen Zhao's daughter ) particularly hated Emperor Wen for destroying Northern Zhou.

In response, Emperor Wen, under advice from the general Zhangsun Sheng ( 長孫晟 ), Emperor Wen carried out the strategy of placating Ashina Shetu's subordinate khans — his uncle Datou Khan Ashina Dianjue ( 阿史那玷厥 ), cousin Abo Khan Ashina Daxianbian ( 阿史那大暹便 ), and brother Ashina Chuluohou ( 阿史那處羅侯 ) – to create dissension within Tujue, and gradually, the strategy worked, causing Tujue to be unable to take unified actions against Sui.

In 585, with Ashina Shetu under attack from one of his subordinate khans, the Datou Khan Ashina Dianjue, Emperor Wen in fact sent Yang Guang to aid Ashina Shetu.

As for the southern borders, they were drawn south of the Amu Darya ( Oxus ), bringing the Ashina into conflict with their former allies, the Sassanids of Persia.

Much of Bactria ( including Balkh ) remained a dependency of the Ashina until the end of the century.

* The Tang Dynasty Chinese general Li Jing captures the Jiali Khan Ashina Duobi, which leads to success in Emperor Taizong's campaign against Eastern Tujue launched at the end of the previous year, and results in the disintegration of the Göktürk Khanate.

It was subsequently adopted by the Ashina before the Göktürks ( hence the Turkic peoples ) and the Mongols brought it to the rest of Asia.

Though they admitted the Ashina of Göktürks into their federation, the power of the Rouran was broken by an alliance of Göktürks, the Chinese Northern Qi and Northern Zhou dynasties and tribes in Central Asia in 552.

After defeating the Ashina in 1589, he made the Aizu domain his base of operations.

The commander of the Chinese Protectorate General to Pacify the West, Tang Jiahui, responded using two armies, one composed of Karluk mercenaries led by Ashina Xin ( client qaghan of Onoq ) and another composed of Tang regulars led by Jiahui himself.

* 717 A. D .: Princess Jianghe ( 交河公主 ), the daughter of Ashina Nahuaidao, 10th Khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate marries Sulu Khan, Khagan of Turgesh.

:※ At the same time, the town of Ekiya in Ashina District also merged into the city of Fukuyama.