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Suiding
Shuiding (; ), formerly Suiding (Suiting) () is a town in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China and the county seat of Huocheng County. It is located some to the northwest of Yining, the main city of the prefecture, and some north of the Ili River. , Shuiding had a population of 29,277. History Qing dynasty Suiding () was built in 1762 during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor after the Revolt of the Altishahr Khojas was pacified. From 1762 to 1765 Suiding was the seat of the Governor General of Xinjiang, the General of Ili. In 1765 the General of Ili moved to the larger fortress of Huiyuan (). Huiyuan suffered severe damage during the Dungan Revolt of 1862–77 when the besieged General of Ili, Mingsioi, blew himself up in his palace rather than surrender to the rebels, and during the Russian occupation that followed between 1871-81. The Russians left pursuant to the 1881 Treaty of Saint Petersburg. From 1882 to 1894 the ...
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Huiyuan, Xinjiang
The town of Huiyuan (; ) is located within Huocheng County, in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. It is situated close to the Ili River, some to the west of Yining, the main city of the prefecture and some south of Shuiding, the county seat. , Huiyuan's population was reported as 20,564. Between 1762 and 1866 the Huiyuan Fortress or Huiyuan City (, ''Huìyuǎn Chéng''), the center of the Chinese authority in Xinjiang was located within the southern area of the modern Huiyuan town. History Qing dynasty Once part of the Dzungar Khanate, this area was annexed by the Manchus-led Qing in the 1750s. The Old Huiyuan fort was built in 1764 during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor after the Revolt of the Altishahr Khojas. It acted as the center of Manchu military power and civilian administration in Xinjiang. The main fortress of the "Nine Forts" of Ili (see Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture#Qing dynasty for the history of the region), Huiyuan was the seat of ...
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Huocheng County
Huocheng County ( zh, s=霍城县, p=Huòchéng xiàn), as the official romanized name, is also transliterated from Uyghur as Korgas County (; in Kazakh: ; zh, s=霍尔果斯县). It is situated within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and falls under the administration of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. The county is located between Yining and the border city of Khorgas, covering an area of , with a population of 360,000 (2004 estimate). There are twenty-nine ethnic groups residing in the county, including the Han and Uyghur nationalities. To the north of Huocheng County is Wenquan County, while the Ili River lies to the south. Its Western side is bordered by Khorgas City, and Yining is located approximately to the east. History Within Huocheng County, lies the significant ruined site of ancient Almaliq. Additionally, the mausoleum of the first khan of Moghulistan, Tughlugh Timur, is also located within the county. During the 1760s, nine fortresses were ...
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Huiyuan Town
The town of Huiyuan (; ) is located within Huocheng County, in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. It is situated close to the Ili River, some to the west of Yining, the main city of the prefecture and some south of Shuiding, the county seat. , Huiyuan's population was reported as 20,564. Between 1762 and 1866 the Huiyuan Fortress or Huiyuan City (, ''Huìyuǎn Chéng''), the center of the Chinese authority in Xinjiang was located within the southern area of the modern Huiyuan town. History Qing dynasty Once part of the Dzungar Khanate, this area was annexed by the Manchus-led Qing in the 1750s. The Old Huiyuan fort was built in 1764 during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor after the Revolt of the Altishahr Khojas. It acted as the center of Manchu military power and civilian administration in Xinjiang. The main fortress of the "Nine Forts" of Ili (see Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture#Qing dynasty for the history of the region), Huiyuan was the seat of ...
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Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture
Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in northern Xinjiang, China. Its capital is Yining, also known as Ghulja or Kulja. Covering an area of 268,591 square kilometres (16.18 per cent of Xinjiang), Ili Prefecture shares a -long border with Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia. There are nine Port of entry, ports of entry in Ili Prefecture at the national level, notably Khorgas. Directly administered regions () within the prefecture cover 56,622 square kilometres (21.08 per cent of Ili's total area) and have a population of 4,930,600 (63.95 per cent of Ili's registered population). Kazakhs in China, Kazakhs are the second largest ethnicity in the prefecture after the Han Chinese, and make up a little over a quarter of the population. Ili is the only Prefecture-level divisions of China, prefecture-level division that has other prefecture-level divisions (Altay Prefecture, Altay and Tacheng Prefecture, Tacheng Prefectures) under its administration. The term "Sub ...
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Yining City
YiningThe official spelling according to ( zh, s=伊宁), also known as Ghulja () or Kulja ( Kazakh: ), is a county-level city in northwestern Xinjiang, China. It is the administrative seat and largest city of Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. Yining is the modern successor to the nearby ruined city of Almaliq, Huocheng County, and is the third largest city in Xinjiang after Ürümqi and Korla. Area and population The city of Yining is a county-level administrative unit located along Ili River. As of 2015, it has an estimated population of 542,507, with a total land area of . It is the most populous city in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. The land area and population of the City of Yining saw an increase in 2003; the increase resulted from the transfer of two villages with some of land from the adjacent Yining County, which is a separate administrative unit from the city. Yining's population is primarily Uyghur, Han, Hui, and Kazakh, along with smaller nu ...
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General Of Ili
The General of Ili ( Officially ), also known in western sources as the Kulja Military Governor, was a position created during the reign of the Qing Qianlong Emperor (r. 1735-1799) to "pacify" Dzungaria (now part of Xinjiang) and suppress uprisings by the Khoja "Rebels". The General of Ili governed the entirety of Xinjiang during Qing rule until it was turned into a province. History Based in Huiyuan City (; now Huiyuan Town, Huocheng County), in the Qing delineated greater Xinjiang region in the northwest of China, the general was the senior military commander in the area. In 1759, Qing general (Manchu: Zhaohuui) suppressed the Revolt of the Altishahr Khojas and reestablished Qing control over the western part of Xinjiang. As a result, in 1762 the Qing court established the position of General of Ili with Ming Rui as the first incumbent. At the same time, the offices of Military Attache or ''Dūtǒng'' () and Imperial Resident () were created under the general to manage ...
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Treaty Of Saint Petersburg (1881)
The Treaty of Saint Petersburg or Treaty of Ili was an unequal treaty between the Russian Empire and the Qing dynasty that was signed in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on . It provided for the return to China of the eastern part of the Ili River, Ili Basin region, also known as Jetisu, Zhetysu, which had been occupied by Russia since 1871 during the Dungan Revolt (1862–77), Dungan Revolt. Background During the Russian conquest of Turkestan, Russia gained control of eastern Kazakhstan up to the current Chinese border. During the Dungan Revolt (1862-77), Dungan Revolt, China lost control of much of its western territory, and power passed to various factions. In 1871, Russia occupied the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Ili territory. There was talk of permanent annexation, but Saint Petersburg declared that it was occupying the territory to protect its citizens. Chinese authority in Xinjiang was re-established by 1877. Chonghou was sent to Russia to negotiate. In September 187 ...
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Henry Lansdell
Henry Lansdell (10January 18414October 1919) was a nineteenth-century British priest in the Church of England. He was also a noted explorer and author. Life Born in Tenterden, Kent, Lansdell was the son of a schoolmaster and home schooled before attending St John's College in Highbury, north London. He then studied at the London College of Divinity before his ordination as a deacon in 1868 and his assignment as a curate in Greenwich. He subsequently became secretary to the Irish Church Missions (1869–79) and founder and honorary secretary of the Homiletical Society (1874–86). He established the ''Clergyman's Magazine'' in 1875, which he edited until 1883. After spending holidays in Europe, Lansdell began long and often arduous journeys to little-known parts of Asia. He distributed multi-lingual religious tracts and bibles provided by London missionary societies wherever he went, most notably in prisons and hospitals in Siberia and central Asia. Lansdell had considerable ...
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Brockhaus And Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The ''Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary'' (35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume encyclopaedia in Russian. It contains 121,240 articles, 7,800 images, and 235 maps. It was published in the Russian Empire in 1890–1907, as a joint venture of Leipzig and St Petersburg publishers. The articles were written by the prominent Russian scholars of the period, such as Dmitri Mendeleev and Vladimir Solovyov. Reprints have appeared following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. History In 1889, the owner of a printing house in St. Petersburg, , at the initiative of Semyon Afanasyevich Vengerov, entered into an agreement with the German publishing house F. A. Brockhaus for the translation into Russian of the large German encyclopaedic dictionary ''Meyers Konversations-Lexikon''. Initially, it was supposed to be limited to the translation of this publication, but only with a more detailed presentation of issues related to Russia. It was ...
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Taranchi
Taranchi is a term denoting the Turkic-speaking, Muslim, sedentary population living in oases around the Tarim Basin in today's Xinjiang, China, whose native language is Turkic Karluk and whose ancestral heritages include Tocharians, Iranic peoples such as Sakas and Sogdians, and the later Turkic peoples such as the Uyghurs, Karluks, Yaghmas, Chigils, Basmyls, Tuhsis and lastly, the Mongolic tribes of the Chagatai Khanate. Name The same name – which simply means 'a farmer' in Chagatai – can be extended to agrarian populations of the Ferghana Valley and oases of the entire Central Asian Turkestan. Although the Tarim Basin (with such oases as Kashgar, Kumul, Khotan and Turpan) is the agrarian Taranchis' traditional homeland, they have during the Qing period on China, migrated to regions that are now Urumqi and Ili. Many Taranchis were encouraged to settle in the Ili valley alongside sedentary Xibe garrisons and the nomadic Kyrgyz by the Qing military go ...
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Military Town (China)
In the history of ancient China, military towns of various grades were important elements of the defense system of the country. Key military towns along the Great Wall of China include Ji Town (蓟镇), Liaodong Town (辽东镇), Xuanfu Town (宣府镇), Chang Town (昌镇), Datong Town (大同镇), Shanxi Town (山西镇), Zhenbao Town (真保镇), Yansui Town (延绥镇), Ningxia Town (宁夏镇), Guyuan Town (固原镇), and Gansu Town (甘肃镇). They were gradually established along the Wall using it as their boundary. Zhixing Chen, Zhe Li, Xiaolong Tuo, Yan Li, Yukun Zhang, and Xiaofeng Zhao"Discovery and Reconstruction of the Remains of the Beacon-Equipped Hollow Enemy Towers along the Ming Great Wall"/ref> See also * Dajingmen 大境門 * Gubeikou 古北口鎮 * Jiayu Pass 嘉峪關 * Huangya Pass 黃崖關 * Jingxing Pass 井陘關 * Juyong Pass 居庸關 * Niangzi Pass 娘子關 * Pingxing Pass 平型關 * Shanhai Pass 山海關 * Yang Pass 陽關 * Yanmen Pas ...
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