Sui and Tang · Ruler

Emperor Taizong of Tang 唐太宗

Táng Tàizōng

Attested AD 648 - AD 648

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Emperor Taizong of Tang was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 648 唐太宗时
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passages 150, 153-154
AD 648 太宗二十二年
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 159

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passage 150

Events and relationships

Broke the Western Turks and resettled tribes
AD 648 唐太宗时 · Military · Commander
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passages 150, 154
Established thirteen prefectures not a Shatuo prefecture
AD 648 唐太宗时 · Political · Ruler · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 4, passages 153-154

References in the histories

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 4Volume 4 Later Tang Annals 1: Zhuangzong 1 · 4 passages

其自序云：沙陀者，北庭之碛也，当唐太宗时，破西突厥诸部，分同罗、仆骨之人于此碛，置沙陀府，而以其始祖拔野古为都督； In their own telling, Shatuo was the desert tract of Beiting: when Taizong crushed the Western Turks he resettled Tongluo and Pugu clans there, founded a Shatuo prefecture, and installed Bayegu as its commander—

夷狄无姓氏，朱邪，部族之号耳，拔野古与朱邪同时人，非其始祖，而唐太宗时，未尝有沙陀府也。 Steppe peoples did not use family names; Zhuye was only a tribal label. Bayegu lived in the same age as the Zhuye, not centuries before them, and Taizong’s reign never saw a “Shatuo prefecture.”

唐太宗破西突厥，分其诸部，置十三州，以同罗为龟林都督府，仆骨为金微都督府，拔野古为幽陵都督府，未尝有沙陀府也。 Taizong shattered the Western Turks and carved their tribes into thirteen districts—Tongluo as Guilin command, Pugu as Jinwei, Bayegu as Youling. Nowhere did he create a Shatuo command.

太宗二十二年，已降拔野古，其明年，阿史那贺鲁叛。 Bayegu submitted in Taizong’s twenty-second year; Helu of the Ashina rose the year after.