Gansu Uyghur Kingdom
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| Gansu Uyghur Kingdom | |||||
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| Capital | Dunhuang | ||||
| Languages | Old Uyghur language | ||||
| Religion | Manichaeism Buddhism |
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| Government | Monarchy | ||||
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| • | Established | c.848 | |||
| • | Disestablished | 1036 | |||
The Gansu Uyghur Kingdom was established around 848, by the Uyghurs after the fall of the Uyghur Khaganate in 840.[4][5] The kingdom lasted from 848-1036; during that time, many of Gansu's residents converted to Buddhism.[6]
The Gansu area was, traditionally, a Chinese inroad into Asia. By the ninth century the Uyghurs had come to dominate the area, taking over from the Tibetan Empire. The area had become a "commercially critical region", making the Uyghur wealthy and cosmopolitan. By the early 11th century, they were in turn conquered by the Tangut people.[7]
Modern era[edit]
The modern day descendants of the Gansu Uyghur kingdom are known as Yugur.[8]
See also[edit]
- Turkic peoples
- Timeline of the Turkic peoples (500–1300)
- List of Turkic dynasties and countries
- Uyghur Khaganate
- Kingdom of Qocho
References[edit]
- ^ Marshall Cavendish Corporation (2006). Peoples of Western Asia. p. 364.
- ^ Bosworth, Clifford Edmund (2007). Historic Cities of the Islamic World. p. 280.
- ^ Borrero, Mauricio (2009). Russia: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present. p. 162.
- ^ Peter B. Golden, Central Asia in World History, (Oxford University Press, 2011), 47.
- ^ James A. Millward (2007). Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang. Columbia University Press. pp. 46–. ISBN 978-0-231-13924-3.
- ^ Manichaeism and Nestorian Christianity, H. J. Klimkeit, History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol.4, Part 2, ed. Clifford Edmund Bosworth, M.S.Asimov, (Motilal Banarsidass, 2003), 70.
- ^ Bell, Connor Joseph (2008). The Uyghur Transformation in Medieval Inner Asia: From Nomadic Turkic Tradition to Cultured Mongol Administrators. ProQuest. pp. 65–69. ISBN 9780549807957. Retrieved 21 December. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ^ Manichaeism and Nestorian Christianity, H. J. Klimkeit, History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol.4, Part 2, 70
- Fu-Hsüeh, Yang. 1994. “On the Sha-chou Uighur Kingdom”. Central Asiatic Journal 38 (1). Harrassowitz Verlag: 80–107. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41929460.