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Name: Beiting

Type: Polity

Start: 703 AD

End: 790 AD

Parent: china

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Was a Chinese protectorate established by the Tang dynasty in 702 to control the Beiting region north of Gaochang in contemporary Xinjiang.

Establishment


  • January 703: In 702, Wu Zetian decided to split the General Protectorate to Pacify the West, or Anxi Protectorate, into two separate Protectorates. To do this, she detaches from Anxi the Zhou of Ting, Yi and Xi that she sets up as the Protectorate of Beiting.
  • Chronology


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    1. China-Tibet Wars


    Were the many wars fought by the Chinese Tang Empire and the Tibetan Empire.

    1.1.8th war with Tibet

    Was the eigth war between the Tang Dynasty of China and the Tibetan Empire.

  • January 716: In 715, the Tibetan Empire, under the rule of Emperor Trisong Detsen, launched an attack on the Beiting Protectorate and Songzhou. This marked a significant military campaign in the expansion of Tibetan territory in Central Asia.
  • February 716: In 715, the Tibetan Empire, under the rule of Emperor Trisong Detsen, launched an attack on the Beiting Protectorate and Songzhou. The Tibetan forces were led by the general Gar Trinring Tsendro, who successfully captured both territories in 716.

  • 1.2.17th war with Tibet

    Was the seventeenth war between the Tang Dynasty of China and the Tibetan Empire.

  • January 782: Tang forces reconquered Yizhou from the Tibetans.

  • 1.3.18th war with Tibet

    Was the eigthteenth war between the Tang Dynasty of China and the Tibetan Empire.

  • January 791: Tang protectorate over Beiting ended in 790 when it was conquered by the Tibetan Empire.

  • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 712: In 711 the Türk forces, led by Tonyukuk, crossed the Mongolian Altai, clashed with the Türgesh army in Dzungaria, on the River Boluchu, and won an outright victory. Tonyukuk forced a crossing over the Syr Darya in pursuit of the retreating Türgesh, leading his troops to the border of Tokharistan.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 791: Tang protectorate over Beiting ended in 790 when it was conquered by the Tibetan Empire.
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