Yusuf Balasagun or Jusup Balasagun was a 11th century Central Asian poet. Together with the other Kyrgyz philosopher Muhammad Kashgar he is regarded as one of the greatest thinkers of the century. The ancient city Balasagun was renamed in his honor. (10th century - 11th century - 12th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 11th century was that century which lasted from 1001 to 1100. ... Map of Central Asia outlined in orange showing one set of possible borders Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz: Кыргызстан, variously transliterated), officially the Kyrgyz Republic, and sometimes known as Kirghizia, is a country in Central Asia. ... A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ... Balasagun, also spelled as Balassagun was an ancient city in modern-day Kyrgyzstan and capital of the Kara-Khitan Khanate. ...

He completed in 1070 the Kutadgu Bilig, one of the first written literary monuments of the aesthetical thought of the Turkic people. Events Hereward the Wake begins a Saxon revolt in the Fens of eastern England. ... The Kutadgu Bilig (English: Wisdom of Royal Glory) is a 1069 moral treatise in the Karakhanid Uyghur dialect, written by Yusuf Has Hajib. ... The Turkic people are any of various peoples whose members speak languages in the Turkic family of languages. ...