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The Tang campaigns against Karasahr (Chinese: 唐滅焉耆之戰) were two military campaigns sent by Emperor Taizong of the Tang dynasty against the Tarim Basin kingdom of Karasahr, a vassal of the Western Turkic Khaganate.
In 644, during the Tang expansion into the Tarim Basin, Emperor Taizong of Tang launched a military campaign against Yanqi after the kingdom allied itself with the Turks. The Four Garrisons of Anxi was established with one based at Yanqi.
A Tang military garrison was installed in the kingdom as one of the Four Garrisons of Anxi, created to secure Tang hegemony of the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang. The conquest of Karasahr, along with the conquest of Kucha, ended the influence of Indo-European culture in Central Asia.
Emperor Taizong responded by dispatching a military campaign led by the general Guo Xiaoke against Karasahr. Karasahr was besieged in 644 by Guo. Tang forces defeated the kingdom, captured the king, and a pro-Tang member of the royal family was enthroned as ruler.
- 648-19 January 649
- Tarim Basin
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The Tang campaigns against Karasahr, known as Yanqi (a transliteration of the Sanskrit name "Agni") in Chinese sources, were two military campaigns sent by Emperor Taizong of the Tang dynasty against the Tarim Basin kingdom of Karasahr in Xinjiang, a vassal of the Western Turkic Khaganate.
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