List of Tengrist states and dynasties

This is a list of khanates, empires and kingdoms who predominantly followed Tengrism, a Central Asian shamanistic religion.

Xiongnu (209 BCE–93 CE)
Xianbei state (93BCE–234)
Rouran Khaganate (330–555)
Huns (370s–469) ^[1]
First Turkic Khaganate (552–659)
Old Great Bulgaria (632–668)
Volga Bulgaria (7th century–922)
Khazar Khaganate (650–740)
First Bulgarian Empire (681–864)
Second Turkic Khaganate (682–744)
Tatar confederation (8th century-1202)
Uyghur Khaganate (744–840)
Oghuz Yabgu State (766–1055)
Kara-Khanid Khanate (840–934)
Pecheneg Khanates (860-1091)
Principality of Hungary (895–1000)
Cumans
Cumania (10th century-1241)
Taichiud
Khamag Mongol (10th century-1206)
Merkits (11th century-1200)
Mongol Empire (1206–1368)
Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)
Northern Yuan (1368-1635)

References edit

^ "There is no doubt that between the 6th and 9th centuries Tengrism was the religion among the nomads of the steppes" Yazar András Róna-Tas, Hungarians and Europe in the early Middle Ages: an introduction to early Hungarian history, Yayıncı Central European University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-963-9116-48-1, p. 151.