{
  "g": "h,empire,asia",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Göktürk Khaganate",
  "years": "552–745",
  "id": "gokturk",
  "index": "e/göktürk-khaganate",
  "title": "Banner of the Göktürk Khaganate",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "sky-blue",
      "hex": "#73bced",
      "note": "Kök — the eternal blue sky (Tengri)."
    },
    {
      "color": "green",
      "hex": "#4e9a2e",
      "note": "The Ashina wolf."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The First Turkic (Göktürk) Khaganate (552–745) was the first Turkic state in history, stretching from Manchuria to the Caspian at its height\n - **Construction:** a sky-blue field charged with a green wolf's head in profile — the **böri**, symbol of the founding Ashina clan said to descend from a she-wolf\n - Reconstruction from the Turkish \"16 Great Turkic Empires\" series; earliest authentic Göktürk emblems appear on the Orkhon inscriptions, which used runic tamgas rather than pictorial banners",
  "flag": "empires/gokturk.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Göktürk Khaganate",
    "officialName": "First Turkic Khaganate",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- Founded by Bumin Qaghan in 552 after he defeated the Rouran\n - Split into Eastern and Western Khaganates in 581; both were conquered by Tang China by 658\n - The Orkhon inscriptions (732–735) are the oldest known texts in any Turkic language",
  "_name": "Göktürk Khaganate",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "gokturk"
}