The Orkhon inscriptions
The oldest Turkic texts, carved in runes on stone stelae
In 732 and 735 stelae were raised in the Orkhon Valley for Prince Kul Tigin and his brother Bilge Khagan. Their Old Turkic runic texts tell of the campaigns and fortunes of the Second Turkic Khaganate. They are the oldest continuous texts in a Turkic language, deciphered by the Dane Vilhelm Thomsen in 1893.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 711–718 Umayyad conquest of Hispania — 21 years earlier
- 732 Battle of Tours — same year
Middle East
- 750 Abbasid Revolution — 18 years later
Alive at the time
- Li Bai (aged 31)
- Lady Six Sky (aged 50)