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Suluk
Türgesh khagan (716-738): for twenty years he held back the Arab armies in Transoxiana, nicknamed Abu Muzahim.
Suluk united the Türgesh tribes in the Suyab and Talas valleys and became khagan in 716. At that time the armies of the Umayyad Caliphate were taking Transoxiana, Bukhara and Samarkand, and the Sogdian cities asked the Türgesh for help.
In 724 Suluk inflicted a heavy defeat on an Arab army near the Jaxartes, which the Arab sources call the Day of Thirst. At the Battle of the Defile in 731 he again caused the Arabs great losses. The Arabs nicknamed him Abu Muzahim, "the one who butts". Suluk formed marriage ties with the Tang, Tibet and the Göktürks at the same time. In 738 he was killed by his own commander Kül Chor.
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Updated: November 12, 2026