ESKİ TÜRK TARİHİNDE GANSU

Between the 3rd century BC and the 11th century AD, many wars took place between the Turks, Chinese and Tibetans in order to control the Gansu Corridor or to benefit from the rich resources of the region.

The use of the Gansu Corridor as a strategic base in military expeditions provided a great advantage to the state controlling this region.

Gansu was also an important region economically because it was at the center of trade routes.

The Huns' dominance of Gansu and the fact that they considered it their own territory even after losing Gansu, the fact that Chinese sources state that Gansu is the old homeland of the Huns, the encouragement of the rise of Buddhism in Gansu by some dynasties descended from the Huns after the political disintegration of the Huns, the raids carried out by the Gokturk Khaganate into the Gansu region and the migration movements of the Turkic tribes to the Gansu region, the Uyghurs' first The Gansu Corridor is an important region for Turki Show More