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Rather, Xinjiang's distinct identity was given by the Qing. It had a distinct geography, history, and culture from the rest of Qing China, while at the same was still Chinese territory, settled by the Han and Hui ethnic groups, distinct from the rest of Central Asia, and largely multicultural. [12]
Xinjiang (新疆; Uyghur: شىنجاڭ), alternatively romanized as Sinkiang, is an area located in Central Asia, between 73 ° 5 'to 96 ° 4' east and 35 ° 5 'and 49 ° north, in total 1,660,000 square km, sharing borders with Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province and Gansu Province.
Site Chinese name Location Designation Image Kizil Thousand Buddha Caves: 克孜尔千佛洞; Kezi'er Qianfodong: Baicheng County: 1-41 Kumtura Thousand Buddha Caves ...
Yettishar [a] (Chagatai: یته شهر; Uyghur: يەتتەشەھەر; lit. ' Seven Cities' or 'Heptapolis '), also known as Kashgaria [4] or the Kashgar Emirate, [5] was a Turkic state in Xinjiang that existed from 1864 to 1877, during the Dungan Revolt against the Qing dynasty.
A 1901 map showing the areas around Chinese Turkestan. Chinese Turkestan, also spelled Chinese Turkistan, [1] is a geographical term or historical region corresponding to the region of the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang (south of the Tian Shan mountain range) or Xinjiang as a whole [2] [3] which was under the rule of the Qing dynasty of China.
Hotan became part of Xinjiang under Qing rule. [11] In the 1930s, the Khotan Emirate declared independence from China. [citation needed] The People's Liberation Army entered Hotan in 1949. The prefecture is known for its jade, silk and carpets.
During the Qing rule, no sense of "regional identity" was held by ordinary Xinjiang people; rather, Xinjiang's distinct identity was given to the region by the Qing, since it had distinct geography, history and culture, while at the same time it was created by the Chinese, multicultural, settled by Han and Hui and separated from Central Asia ...
The incorporation of Xinjiang into the People's Republic of China, known in Chinese historiography as the Peaceful Liberation of Xinjiang (Chinese: 新疆和平解放), was the takeover of Xinjiang by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its People's Liberation Army (PLA) in the waning days of the Chinese Civil War. At the time, Xinjiang was ...