Uqturpan County
Wushi County 乌什县 • ئۇچتۇرپان ناھىيىسى | |
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Location of Uqturpan County (red) within Aksu Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Xinjiang |
Prefecture | Aksu Prefecture |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Wushi County | |||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 乌什县 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 烏什縣 | ||||||||||
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Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 乌什吐鲁番县 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 烏什吐魯番縣 | ||||||||||
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Uyghur name | |||||||||||
Uyghur |
ئۇچتۇرپان ناھىيىسى | ||||||||||
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Wushi County (Chinese: 乌什县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Uqturpan County (Uyghur: ئۇچتۇرپان ناھىيىسى ; Chinese: 乌什吐鲁番县) the former longer Chinese name as well, is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under the administration of Aksu Prefecture, and borders Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul Region. It has an area of 9,012 square kilometres (3,480 sq mi) and as of the 2002 census a population of 180,000.
History
Tang
During the Battle of Aksu (717), the Umayyad Caliphate and their Turgesh and Tibetan Empire allies hope to seize Uqturpan (then known as Dai-dʑiᴇk-dʑiᴇŋ) from Tang-Karluks-Exiled Western Turkic Khaganate allies but were repelled.[1]
Qing
Ush Turfan was the site of a battle between Barhanuddin and Abdulla during the Revolt of the Altishahr Khojas.[2][3] Six years after the Revolt of the Altishahr Khojas, ten years after the Qing's rescue of the Khoja Brothers from Dzungars, an anti-Qing uprising of the local Turkic (later "Uyghur") people took place in Uqturpan. Legend says that a local rebel leader was married to Iparhan, known as the "Fragrant Concubine" a descendant of Apaq Khoja. During the turmoil, many fled, and the thousands who remained were killed by Sino-Manchu forces. Later, the area was repopulated by migrants from what is now Southern Xinjiang.[4]
References
- ↑ Section 221 (Section 27 of the Chapter Records of Tang) of Zizhi Tongjian
- ↑ Hamid Wahed Alikuzai (October 2013). A Concise History of Afghanistan in 25 Volumes. Trafford Publishing. pp. 303–. ISBN 978-1-4907-1441-7.
- ↑ Demetrius Charles Boulger; Muḥammad Ya'ḳûb (amir of Kashgar.) (1878). The Life of Yakoob Beg: Athalik Ghazi, and Bradaulet ̱of Kashgar ; With Map and Appendix. pp. 47–.
- ↑ Laura J. Newby, "'Us and Them' in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Xinjiang," in Ildikó Bellér-Hann, et al., eds., Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia (2007), p. 26.
Coordinates: 41°12′50″N 79°13′23″E / 41.21389°N 79.22306°E