Turpan Khanate | |||||||||
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| 1487–1660? | |||||||||
 Yarkent and Turpan khanates in 1517 | |||||||||
| Capital | Turpan | ||||||||
| Common languages | Chagatai language | ||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Khan | |||||||||
• 1487-1504 (first) | Ahmad Alaq | ||||||||
• 1570 (last) | Muhammad Khan ibn Mansur Khan | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1487 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1660? | ||||||||
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| Today part of | China | ||||||||
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.
- ^ Carrington, Luther (1976). Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644, Volume 2. Columbia University Press. p. 1037. ISBN 9780231038331.
- ^ Jeong, Su-il (2016). The Silk Road Encyclopedia. Seoul Selection. p. 908. ISBN 9781624120763.
- ^ Carrington, Luther (1976). Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644, Volume 2. Columbia University Press. p. 1028. ISBN 9780231038331.