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Chuguchak
TachengThe official spelling according to (), as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Mongolian as Qoqak, is a county-level city (1994 est. pop. 56,400) and the administrative seat of Tacheng Prefecture, in northern Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang. The city was sometimes called Tarbaghatay or Tarbagatai (Mongolian: 'having marmots') and in European languages as Chuguchak (based on its name in the Mongolian language). The current official Chinese name Tacheng is an abbreviation of "Tarbaghatay City". The current Uyghur name is Qöqäk transliterated from Mongolian. It is located in the Dzungarian Basin, some from the Chinese border with Kazakhstan. For a long time it has been a major center for trade with Central Asia because it is an agricultural hub. Its industries include food processing, textiles, and utilities. History In the mid-19th century, Chuguchak was considered the most important commercial center of Western China after Ghulja (Yining), ...
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Dungan Revolt (1862–1877)
The Dungan Revolt (1862–1877) or Tongzhi Hui Revolt (, Xiao'erjing: تُ‌جِ خُوِ لُوًا, dng, Тунҗы Хуэй Луан) or Hui (Muslim) Minorities War was a war fought in 19th-century western China, mostly during the reign of the Tongzhi Emperor (r. 1861–1875) of the Qing dynasty. The term sometimes includes the Panthay Rebellion in Yunnan, which occurred during the same period. However, this article refers specifically to two waves of uprising by various Chinese Muslims, mostly Hui people, in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia provinces in the first wave, and then in Xinjiang in the second wave, between 1862 and 1877. The uprising was eventually suppressed by Qing forces led by Zuo Zongtang. The conflict began with riots by the Hui and massacres of the Han Chinese, followed by the revenge massacres of the Hui by the Han. It resulted in massive demographic shifts in Northwest China, and led to a population loss of 21 million people from a combination of massa ...
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Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture
Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture ( kk, Іле Қазақ автономиялық облысы) (also as Yili) is an autonomous prefecture for Kazakh people in Northern Xinjiang, China, one of five autonomous prefectures in Xinjiang. Yining City is its capital. It is bordered by Mongolia, Russian Federation and Republic of Kazakhstan on the northeast to southwest, with a boundary line of 2,019 kilometers. Including Khorgas, Bakhty and Jeminay, there are 9 ports of entry at the national level. With the unique location advantage, Ili has been an important commercial hub and international channel of opening up to the west. The autonomous prefecture covers an area of 268,591 square kilometers, accounting for 16.18% of Xinjiang. Direct-administered regions () within the prefecture cover 56,622 square kilometers (21.08% of total area) and have a population of 4,930,600 (or 63.95% of registered population). There are about 3.6 million Kazakhs in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. The Ka ...
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Tacheng Prefecture
Tacheng Prefecture is located in Northern Xinjiang, People's Republic of China. It has an area of and a population of 935,600 (2017). It is a part of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. The prefecture level city of Karamay forms a separate enclave in the middle of Tacheng. Subdivisions Tacheng prefecture is divided into 3 county level cities, 3 counties, and 1 autonomous county. Geography See Emin Valley, Tarbagatai Mountains, Saur Mountains, Gurbantünggüt Desert. Heads Secretary # Li Fengzi -1991.05 # Li Guimao 1991.06-1994.07 # Wu Qilin 1994.07-2000.04 # Tang Dingbang 2000.04-2004.11 # Peng Jiarui 2004.11-2011.07 # Zhang Bo 2011.07-2015.01 # Xue Bin since 2017.03 () Governors # Baspaı Sholaquly Баспай Шолақұлы 1945–1952 # Арыстанбек (阿尔斯坦别克) 1983.-1993.06 # Alpısbaý Raxımulı 1993.06-1997.01 # Qızaýjan Seýilqojaulı 1996.12-2003.01 # Tilepaldı Äbdiraşïd 2003.01-2008.01 :zh:铁力瓦尔迪· ...
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County-level City
A county-level municipality (), county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: ; 1970–1983: ), is a Administrative divisions of China#County level (3rd), county-level administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China. County-level cities have judiciary, judicial but no legislature, legislative rights over their own local ordinance, local law and are usually governed by Administrative divisions of China#Prefectural level (2nd), prefecture-level divisions, but a few are governed directly by Administrative divisions of China#Provincial level (1st), province-level divisions. A county-level city is a "city" () and "county" () that have been merged into one unified jurisdiction. As such it is simultaneously a city, which is a municipal entity and a county which is an administrative division of a prefecture. Most county-level cities were created in the 1980s and 1990s by replacing denser populated Counties of Chin ...
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Central Asia
Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a subregion, region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes the former Soviet Union, Soviet republics of the Soviet Union, republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, which are colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as the countries all have names ending with the Persian language, Persian suffix "-stan", meaning "land of". The current geographical location of Central Asia was formerly part of the historic region of Turkestan, Turkistan, also known as Turan. In the pre-Islamic and early Islamic eras ( and earlier) Central Asia was inhabited predominantly by Iranian peoples, populated by Eastern Iranian languages, Eastern Iranian-speaking Bactrians, Sogdians, Khwarezmian language, Chorasmians and the semi-nomadic Scythians and Dahae. After expansion by Turkic peop ...
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Xincheng Subdistrict, Tacheng City
Xincheng may refer to: People *Tuoba Xincheng (拓拔新成), brother of Emperor Wencheng of Northern Wei; held the title of Prince You of Yangping *Xincheng, one of the daughters of Emperor Taizong of Tang (Li Shimin) and Empress Zhangsun Places Mainland China *Xincheng County (忻城县), of Laibin, Guangxi *Xincheng District (新城区) **Xincheng District, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia **Xincheng District, Xi'an, Shaanxi *Xincheng Air Base and Yinchuan/Xincheng Air Base, both in the Lanzhou Military Region of the PRC *Xincheng, one of the nine commanderies of the Protectorate General to Pacify the East *Xincheng Prison in Beijing * Xincheng Town (other) * Xincheng Township (other) (新城乡) * Xincheng Subdistrict (other) Taiwan *Xincheng, Hualien (新城鄉), township in Hualien City, Republic of China (Taiwan) **Xincheng Incident, during the Japanese occupation Art forms *Xincheng Opera, a traditional form of Chinese theater from northeast China See ...
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Heping Subdistrict, Tacheng City
Heping () may refer to: * Heping, Taichung (和平區), a district in Taichung, Taiwan Places in Mainland China * Heping District, Tianjin (和平区) * Heping District, Shenyang (和平区), Liaoning * Heping County (和平县), of Heyuan, Guangdong Subdistricts * Heping Subdistrict, Shaoguan, in Zhenjiang District, Shaoguan, Guangdong * Heping Subdistrict, Gaobeidian, Hebei * Heping Subdistrict, Handan, in Congtai District, Handan, Hebei * Heping Subdistrict, Wuhan, in Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei * Heping Subdistrict, Baotou, in Donghe District, Baotou, Inner Mongolia * Heping Subdistrict, Ulan Hot, Inner Mongolia * Heping Subdistrict, Xuzhou, in Quanshan District, Xuzhou, Jiangsu * Heping Subdistrict, Meihekou, Jilin * Heping Subdistrict, Anshan City, in Tiedong District, Anshan, Liaoning * Heping Subdistrict, Fushun, in Wanghua District, Fushun, Liaoning * Heping Subdistrict, Fuxin, in Haizhou District, Fuxin, Liaoning * Heping Subdistrict, Zibo, in Zhangdian Dis ...
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Kazakh SSR
; kk, Қазақ Советтік Социалистік Республикасы) *1991: Republic of Kazakhstan (russian: Республика Казахстан; kk, Қазақстан Республикасы) , linking_name = the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic , year_start = 1936 , event_start = Elevation to a Union Republic , date_start = 5 December , event1 = Jeltoqsan riots , date_event1 = 16 December 1986 , event2 = Sovereignty declared , date_event2 = 25 October 1990 , event3 = Renamed Republic of Kazakhstan , date_event3 = 10 December 1991 , event4 = Independence declared , date_event4 = 16 December 1991 , date_end = 26 December , event_end = Independence recognised , year_end = 1991 , p1 = Kazakh ASSR , s1 = Kazakhstan ...
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Ili-Tacheng Incident
During Ili-Tacheng Incident, May 29, 1962, about 67,000 Chinese citizens of Xinjiang fled illegally to neighbouring Soviet Union through ports at Khorgas of Ili and Baketu of Tacheng, causing steep decline of the population of borderlands. Since then, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps moved into nearby regions and established a few state farms as a measure of national defence. Prominent people that fled to Soviet Union included PLA generals Margub Ishakov Margub Timergalievich Iskhakov (13 March 1923 – 1992) was a Chinese Tatar military officer who held several important commands in the armies of the Second East Turkestan Republic and the People's Republic of China. He defected to the Soviet Un ... and Zunun Taipov. After the collapse of Soviet Union, some of the previous refugees expressed their intention to return but were rejected by Chinese government. References {{reflist 1962 in China 1962 in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic 20th century in Xinjiang ...
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