Kangar people

The Kankali, Qanqli, or Kangly (Kanglı/Qangli) were a Turkic people of Central Asia and the Eurasian Steppe, during the Middle Ages.

There are varying accounts and theories concerning the origins of the Kankalis and their connections to other peoples. They may have been:

Kangju (康居) is known only from Chinese scholars of the 2nd century BCE, and may be a Chinese exonym for Sogdia. Its inhabitants, an Eastern Iranian-speaking people, may have been synonymous with . During the first half of the 1st millennium CE, Kangju was conquered by various invaders including the Xyōn (Xionites) and Kidara (Kidarites) and I-ta (Hepthalites).

By about 600 a Kangari people were apparently allies of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate (against the Western Turkic Khaganate). The Kangari and a city of named Kangu Tarban (Otrar) are mentioned by Kul Tigin in the Orkhon inscription (8th century). The Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII (Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos) noted in his De Administrando Imperio (c. 950) that the name Kangar was used by three groups of Pechenegs. These circumstances may indicate that Kangju was Turkified.

The Kankali, as such, first appear in history as a minor branch of the ancient Oghuz Turks. They formed one of the five sections into which the Oghuz khan divided his subjects. After the fall of the Pecheneg Khanate, in the early 10th century, the role of the Kankali became prominent.

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