The
Türgesh,
Turgish or
Türgish (
Old Turkic: Türügesh, 突騎施/突骑施,
Pinyin: tūqíshī,
Wade-Giles: t'u-ch'i-shih) were a
Turkic tribal confederation that emerged from the ruins of the
Western Turkic Kaganate. In time, the Turgesh, themselves a branch of the greater Tardush (Tulu,
Dulo) subdivision of the On Okh (
Onoq, Ten Arrows) or Western Turks, managed to build up a considerable if short-lived Kaganate (699-766), attested by minting of Türgesh coins. Presently, the ethnonym
Türgesh survived in the name of seok (modern tribe)
Tirgesh among
Altaians.