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Uyghur princes from Cave 9 of the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, Xinjiang, China, 8th–9th century AD, wall painting. The history of the Uyghur people, as with the ethnic origin of the people, is a matter of contention. [156] Uyghur historians viewed the Uyghurs as the original inhabitants of Xinjiang with a long history.
Map of East Turkestan (Xinjiang); prefectures with a Uyghur majority are in blue. In 1949, after the Chinese Nationalists (Kuomintang) lost the civil war in China, the Second East Turkestan Republic 's rulers refused to form a confederate relation within Mao Zedong 's People's Republic of China ; however, a plane crash killed many of the East ...
After the Uyghur Khaganate in Mongolia was destroyed by the Kirghiz in 840, branches of the Uyghurs established themselves in Qocha (Karakhoja) and Beshbalik (near present-day Turfan and Ürümqi). The Uyghur state remained in eastern Xinjiang until the 13th century, although it was ruled by foreign overlords. The Kara-Khanids converted to Islam.
The Makan Map is the first multi-language atlas of the Xinjiang. [6] It has been created in four languages: Uyghur , Chinese, French and English. The current version is the second version of the Makan Map. [ 1 ]
the Uyghur American Association, [5] a Washington D.C.–based advocacy organization which was established in 1998 by a group of Uyghur overseas activists to raise the public awareness of the Uyghur people; the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement, a youth led organization which was set up by Uyghur graduate student Salih Hudayar in 2017 [6]
East Turkestan or East Turkistan (Uyghur: شەرقىي تۈركىستان, ULY: Sherqiy Türkistan, UKY: Шәрқий Туркистан), also called Uyghuristan (ئۇيغۇرىستان, Уйғуристан), is a loosely-defined geographical region in the northwestern part of the People's Republic of China, on the cross roads of East and Central Asia, which varies in meaning by context and ...
Old (Uyghur) Muslim men forcibly married the women. In response to the chaos a curfew was placed at 11 p.m. [250] The marriages between Muslim (Uyghur) women and Han Chinese men infuriated the Uyghur leader Isa Yusuf Alptekin. [251] Mixed Han-Uyghur partners were pressured to leave their parents and sometimes Xinjiang entirely.
Dzungaria (red) and the Tarim Basin (blue), the two constituent territorial components of Xinjiang. Migration to Xinjiang is historical movement of people, often sponsored by various states who controlled the region, including the Han dynasty, Tang dynasty, Uyghur Khaganate, Yuan dynasty, Qing dynasty, Republic of China and People's Republic of China.