Turpan Khanate

Turpan Khanate
1487–1660?
Yarkent and Turpan khanates in 1517
Yarkent and Turpan khanates in 1517
CapitalTurpan
Common languagesChagatai language
Religion
Sunni Islam
GovernmentMonarchy
Khan 
• 1487-1504 (first)
Ahmad Alaq
• 1570 (last)
Muhammad Khan ibn Mansur Khan
History 
• Established
1487
• Disestablished
1660?
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Moghulistan
Yarkent Khanate
Today part ofChina

The Turpan Khanate (Chinese: 吐魯番汗國), also known as the Eastern Moghulistan,[1] Kingdom of Uyghurstan[2] or Turfan Khanate,[3] was a Sunni Muslim Turco-Mongol khanate ruled by the descendants of Chagatai Khan. It was founded by Ahmad Alaq in 1487 based in Turpan as the eastern division of Moghulistan, itself an eastern offshoot of the Chagatai Khanate.

Most territories of the Turpan Khanate were conquered by the Yarkent Khanate, the western offshoot of Moghulistan, in 1570.

  1. ^ Carrington, Luther (1976). Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644, Volume 2. Columbia University Press. p. 1037. ISBN 9780231038331.
  2. ^ Jeong, Su-il (2016). The Silk Road Encyclopedia. Seoul Selection. p. 908. ISBN 9781624120763.
  3. ^ Carrington, Luther (1976). Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644, Volume 2. Columbia University Press. p. 1028. ISBN 9780231038331.