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Xinjiang, also known as Chinese Turkestan, was subdivided into the regions north and south of the Tian Shan mountains, also known today as Dzungaria and Tarim Basin respectively, but the post of Ili General was established in 1762 to exercise unified military and administrative jurisdiction over both regions.
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Xinjiang, Tibet, and Mongolia were also formally incorporated into Chinese territory.
Chiang also supported the Muslim General Ma Zhongying, whom he had trained at Whampoa Military Academy during the Kumul Rebellion, in a Jihad against Jin Shuren, Sheng Shicai, and the Soviet Union during the Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang.
The Kuomintang also fought against a Soviet and White Russian invasion during the Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang.
In China, ethnic Mongols can be found mainly in the central north region of China such as Inner Mongolia ( a smaller number of Mongols can also be found in Xinjiang in northwest China ).
Likewise, Manchuria was also governed by military generals until its division into provinces, though some areas of Xinjiang and Manchuria were lost to the Russian Empire in the mid-19th century.
Furthermore, similar to Xinjiang which was converted into a province earlier, the Qing government also turned Manchuria into three provinces in the early 20th century, officially known as the " Three Northeast Provinces ", and established the post of Viceroy of Three Northeast Provinces to oversee these provinces, making the total number of regional viceroys to nine.
Since the summer of 2008, the schedule systems show also a direct weekly train to Urumqi ( in China's Xinjiang ).
Russians ( eluosizu ) are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China ( as the Russ ); there are approximately 15, 600 Russian Chinese living mostly in northern Xinjiang, and also in Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang.
It is administered by China as part of Hotan County in the Hotan Prefecture of Xinjiang Autonomous Region, but is also claimed by India as a part of the Ladakh district of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
In the week following the trade deadline, the Spurs also signed forward Boris Diaw after Diaw's contract was bought out by the Charlotte Bobcats, and former Portland Trail Blazers guard Patrick Mills who played for the Xinjiang Flying Tigers in the CBA during the lockout.
Many Gilgitis and Kunjuti were also enslaved in China After being freed due to the efforts of British authorities in China, many slaves such as Gilgitis in Xinjiang cities like Tashkurgan, Yarkand, and Karghallik, stayed rather than return to Gilgit.
* Within the PRC, the two western regions of Xinjiang and Tibet are also the focus of secessionist calls by the Tibetan Independence Movement and East Turkestan Islamic Movement.
The Xibo also maintained their identity at their Xinjiang outpost.
It is also a public holiday in China in certain regions, including two Province Prefecture Level regions, Ningxia and Xinjiang.
It includes present-day Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang. Many would also include Turkic regions of Russia ( Tatarstan & parts of Siberia ) as well.
P. lorteti is also recognized from the middle Miocene of Asia ( Jiangsu, China ), where two additional species, Pseudaelurus guangheensis from the middle Miocene of Gansu ( China ) and Pseudaelurus cuspidatus from the middle Miocene of Xinjiang ( China ) are reported.
In western China, there is not only horse-back Buzkashi, but also yak Buzkashi among Tajiks of Xinjiang.
* Dörben Oyriad (' Four Confederates ') or Dzungar ( Kalmyk or Kalmuck people branch ) Khanate formed in 1626, covering Xinjiang region of China, Kyrgyzstan, eastern Kazakhstan and western Mongolia ; 2 Dec 1717 – 1720 also styled Protector of Tibet ; 1755 tributary to China, 1756 annexed and dissolved in 1757
Uyghurstan is also a difference in emphasis in that it excludes more peoples in Xinjiang than just the Han, but the " East Turkestan " movement is still a Uyghur phenomenon.
* 116: The Kushans, under Kanishka, establish a kingdom centered on Kashgar, also taking control of Khotan and Yarkand — previously Chinese dependencies in the Tarim Basin, modern Xinjiang.
It also extends into the Chinese province of Xinjiang and into the northern areas of Pakistan, where it joins the Hindu Kush.
Muztagh Tower ( also: Mustagh Tower ; Muztagh: ice tower ), is a mountain in the Baltoro Muztagh, part of the Karakoram range on the border of the Gilgit – Baltistan region of Pakistan and the Xinjiang Uygur region of China.
There is also a heavily Persian-influenced Äynu language spoken by the Äynu people in southwestern Xinjiang who are officially considered Uyghurs.
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After this invasion, the region, which had been known as the Xiyu special administrative area, was reorganized into a province named " Xinjiang ", which when literally translated means " New Territory ".
* Second East Turkestan Republic ( 1944 – 1949 )-The Second East Turkestan Republic, usually known simply as the East Turkistan Republic ( ETR ), was a short-lived Soviet-backed separatist republic which existed in the 1940s in what is now the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
The Russians wanted to know the military feasibility of invading Western China, including the provinces of Xinjiang and Gansu, in its struggles with Britain for control of Inner Asia known as " The Great Game.
The only known remnants of the Khotanese Saka language come from Xinjiang, China.
The Gökturks, known in Chinese as the Tujue () united the Turkic peoples and created a large empire, which broke into various Khanates ; the West Tujue Khanate inherited Xinjiang, but West Tujue became part of China's Tang Dynasty until the 9th century.
During the sixteenth century, the Chagatai Khanate completed the Islamification and Turkification of western Xinjiang and the surrounding region, known then as Moghulistan, while China's Ming Dynasty held the Eastern Areas.
After the Fall of the Ming Dynasty, a western Mongol group established a polity in " Chinese Tartary " as it was sometimes known, or in eastern Xinjiang, expanding southward into southern Xinjiang.
The Uyghurs of Xinjiang, China, enjoy a form of bagel known as girdeh nan ( from Persian, meaning round bread ), which is one of several types of nan, the bread eaten in Xinjiang.
Thus, western Siberia was Muscovite or Russian Tartary, Xinjiang and Mongolia were Chinese or Cathay Tartary, western Turkestan ( later Russian Turkestan ) was known as Independent Tartary, and Manchuria was East Tartary.
The UAA ’ s Uyghur Human Rights Project will research, document and bring to interna tional attention, independent and accurate information about human rights violations affecting the Turkic populations of East Turkestan also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
The Taklamakan Desert, also known as Taklimakan and Teklimakan, is a desert in northwest China, in the southwest portion of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
By around 460, the Uar had taken over much of Central Eurasia from Xinjiang to the Volga River, and founded a capital at the city of Badiyan or Panjakent, near what is now Khujand, though very little is known about the area from the late 5th to early 6th centuries.
Kashgaria extended from the capital Kashgar in south-western Xinjiang to Urumqi, Turpan, and Hami in central and eastern Xinjiang more than a thousand kilometers to the north-east, including a majority of what was known at the time as East Turkestan.
Gasherbrum I (; ), also known as Hidden Peak or K5, is the 11th highest peak on Earth, located on the Pakistani – Chinese border in Gilgit – Baltistan region of Pakistan and Xinjiang region of China.
Gasherbrum II (; ), also known as K4, is the 13th highest mountain on Earth, located on the border of Gilgit – Baltistan province, Pakistan and Xinjiang, China.
He was the first official diplomat to bring back reliable information about Central Asia to the Chinese imperial court, then under Emperor Wu of Han, and played an important pioneering role in the Chinese colonization and conquest of the region now known as Xinjiang.
Turpan (; ), also known as Turfan or Tulufan, is an oasis county-level city in Turpan Prefecture, in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
The Moghul ruler of Turpan Yunus Khan, also known as Ḥājjī ` Ali, ( ruled 1462-1478 ) unified Moghulistan ( roughly corresponding to today's Eastern Xinjiang ) under his authority in 1472.
Baltistan (, Balti:, also known as Baltiyul ), is a region in northern Pakistan which forms Gilgit – Baltistan, bordering the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China.
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