- (Chinese: 高昌; pinyin: Gāochāng; Old Uyghur: Qocho), also
called Khocho,
Karakhoja, Qara-hoja, Kara-Khoja or
Karahoja (قاراغوجا in Uyghur), was a ruined...
- The Tang
campaign against Karakhoja,
known as
Gaochang in
Chinese sources, was a
military campaign in 640 CE
conducted by
Emperor Taizong of the Tang...
-
invasion of the
Tarim Basin.
Karakhoja had been
ruled by the Qu
family since 498. The most
Sinicized of the
oasis states,
Karakhoja had
adopted Chinese script...
- the
campaign against Karakhoja—turned
against Tang and
allied with the
Western Turkic Khaganate, the Tang
commandant at
Karakhoja, Guo Xiaoke [zh], attacked...
-
Kirghiz in 840,
branches of the
Uyghurs established themselves in
Qocha (
Karakhoja) and
Beshbalik (near present-day
Turfan and Ürümqi). The
Uyghur state...
-
Protectorate General to
Pacify the West was established. Tang
campaign against Karakhoja: Tang
defeated and
annexed Gaochang. 641
Emperor Taizong's
campaign against...
-
Nestorian clergy in a 7th- or 8th-century wall
painting from a
church at
Karakhoja,
Chinese Turkestan Mogao Christian painting, a late-9th-century silk painting...
-
series of
military victories against the Shiwei, Khitan, Rouran, Tuyuhun,
Karakhoja and Yada. By the end of the 6th century,
following the Göktürk
civil war...
-
desert climate has
favored preservation of the
content of the Astana-
Karakhoja ancient tombs,
which are
located about 6 km from the
ancient city of Gaochang...
-
dynasty States of the
Tarim Basin 640 AD 640 AD Tang
campaign against Karakhoja Part of the Tang wars
against the
Western Turks Tang
dynasty Gaochang...