Editing Tonyukuk (section)

{{short description|Military commander of the Second Turkic Khaganate}}
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| name         = Tonyukuk
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| succession   = [[Tarkhan]] of the [[Second Turkic Khaganate]]
| reign        = 681–716 or 717
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| issue        = [[Po Beg]]
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| full name    = Bilge Tuñuquq [[Boila|Boyla]] [[Baghatur|Baga]] [[Tarkhan|Tarkan]]
| native_name  = 𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰏𐰀 𐱃𐰆𐰪𐰸𐰸 𐰉𐰆𐰖𐰞𐰀 𐰉𐰍𐰀 𐱃𐰺𐰴𐰣 (in [[Old Turkic]])
| other_titles = Apa Tarkan
| noble family = [[Ashide]]
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| birth_name   = Ashide Yuanzhen <br />  阿史德元珍
| birth_date   = {{circa}} 646
| birth_place  = [[Yulin, Inner Mongolia|Yulin]], [[Tang dynasty]] (modern day [[Inner Mongolia]])<ref>Schlegel, 1892, p. 13</ref>
| death_date   = {{circa}} 726 (aged 79–80)
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| occupation   = Counsellor<ref>Istanbul University Research Institute of Turkology (1979), ''I. Milletler Arası Türkoloji Kongresi: Türk dili ve edebiyatı'', p. 381</ref><br />[[Grand vizier]]<br />[[Commander-in-chief]]
| memorials    = [[Tonyukuk inscriptions]]
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'''Tonyukuk''' ({{langx|otk|𐰋𐰃𐰠𐰏𐰀:𐱃𐰆𐰪𐰸𐰸|Bilgä Tuňuquq|lit=Tunyuquq the Wise}},<ref>{{cite journal|title=BİLGE TONYUKUK Tonyuquq the Wise|author=İlhami DURMUŞ|journal=Asya Araştırmaları Dergisi|issue=1|volume=3|lang=tr}}</ref> {{lang-zh||c=暾欲谷|p=Tunyugu}}, {{Lang-zh|c=阿史德元珍|s=|t=|p=Āshǐdé Yuánzhēn}}, born c. 646, died c. 726) was the baga-tarkhan (supreme commander) and adviser of four successive [[Göktürk]] [[khagan]]s – [[Ilterish Qaghan]], [[Qapaghan Qaghan]], [[Inel Qaghan]] and [[Bilge Qaghan]]. He conducted victorious campaigns against various [[Turkic peoples|Turkic]] and non-Turkic steppe peoples, such as Tölis, [[Xueyantuo]], [[Toquz Oguz]], [[Yenisei Kyrgyz]], [[Kurykans]], [[Tatar confederation|Thirty Tatar]], [[Khitan people|Khitan]] and [[Tatabi]] as well as the [[Tang dynasty]].<ref>Peter B. Golden, (1992), ''An Introduction to the History of the Turkic People'', p. 137</ref> He was described as a [[kingmaker]] by historians such as [[E. P. Thompson]]<ref>{{cite book|publisher=Türkiye Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi|year=1937|title=Ülkü|page=352|language=tr}}</ref> and [[Peter Benjamin Golden]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter B. Golden|year=2010|title=Central Asia in World History|page=42}}</ref>