Turkic khaganate in the Ili valley that resisted Arab expansion into Central Asia; succeeded the Western Turkic Khaganate.
Conquered in 766 CE when the Karluks overran Zhetysu (Jetisu) and ended Turgesh rule, thereafter establishing their own Karluk Yabghu Khanate centered on Suyab.
Broad survey of Central Asian steppe powers within which the Turgesh Khaganate operated; Rutgers University Press, confirmed via Cambridge Core and Rutgers UP catalogue.