Yarkent Khanate

The Islamic Yarkant Khanate (1514-1680) or Khanate of Yarkand and so was in 1514 by Sultan Said - founded on the ground of the original Chagatai Khanate - the descendants of Tughluk Timur ( 1347-1363 ) of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate. The area of the Khanate extended in the east to Jiayuguan, in the south to Tibet in the southwest to Kashmir, the eastern part of Badakhshan and Baltistan; in the west the Mughal empire was his neighbor, the Fergana Valley in Uzbekistan was the border, in the north it was bounded by the Tianshan Mountains, with neighboring Kazakhstan.

Because Kashgar made ​​an early center, it is called in the West of the so-called Kashgar Khanate. In Central Asia, the Khanate is because it was founded by the descendants of Genghis Khan, as the Mongol.

Its capital was Yarkant ( Shache ), it exercised control over Turpan, Hami and the Tarim Basin south of the Tianshan Mountains and over much of the body designated by the Chinese as Western regions of areas. 1678 won Apak Hoja ( Apak Khoja ) from the Khoja Khanate under the suzerainty of the Manchu dynasty control over the Tarim Basin. 1680 was defeated by Galdan and the Dsungars Khanate incorporated. Apak Hoja ruled under Galdan in a puppet regime further into Yarkant.

Aman Isa Khan

A famous personality from the time this rule is the Muqam ( Mukam ) champion, poet and musician Aman Isa Khan ( 1526-1560 ), the wife of the second Yarkant ruler Abdurashid Khan.

Ruler tombs

The rulers of the graves Yarkant Khanate in circles Yarkant, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China ( 6-295 ) since 2006.

Ruler of Yarkant Khanate (selection)

  • Sultan Said ( s)
  • Abdullah Khan Abdurashid (s)
  • Abdullah Karim Khan
  • Muhammad Khan
  • Ahmed Khan
  • Abdullah Khan

Quote

"From the Ming Dynasty to the Tibetan Buddhism even took a tremendous development and is adjacent to the Islam, the main religion in Xinjiang. In the last years of the 17th century destroyed Apakhoja year, the leader of the Islamic Group Aktaglik, with the help of the forces of Tibetan Buddhism, the forces of the fraction Karataglik, his political opponents, and established the Khanate Yarkan, one of the descendants of the Mongol Khans Qagatay built 1514-1680 local regime with today's Shache as the center, based on which shows how strong the forces of Tibetan Buddhism at the time. "

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