KARABALGASUN ii. The Inscription The trilingual inscription at Karabalgasun, in Old Turkic, Sogdian, and Chinese, of the eighth Uighur qaghan…

KARABALGASUN, or Khar Balgas “Black ruined city” in Mongolian, archeological site of a capital of the Uighur Khaghanate (second half…

PERSONAL NAMES, SOGDIAN i. IN CHINESE SOURCES Sogdians were famous as traders along the Silk Road before the Islamization of…