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Turpan (Uyghur: تۇرپان) or
Turfan (Chinese: 吐鲁番) is a prefecture-level city
located in the east of the
autonomous region of Xinjiang, China. It has an...
- 吐魯番汗國), also
known as the
Eastern Moghulistan,
Kingdom of
Uyghurstan or
Turfan Khanate, was a ****
Muslim Turco-Mongol
khanate ruled by the descendants...
- The
German Turfan expeditions were four
archeological expeditions to
Turfan in Xinjiang, China,
conducted between 1902 and 1914. They were
initiated by...
- 42°47′N 89°20′E / 42.78°N 89.34°E / 42.78; 89.34 The
Turpan Depression or
Turfan Depression, is a fault-bounded
trough located around and
south of the city-oasis...
- The
Turpan water system, also
called the
Turfan kārēz system, is used for
water supply via a
vertical tunnel in the
Turpan Depression of Xinjiang, China...
- up and
remnants of it
migrated to
Turfan,
Qomul (later Hami), and
Gansu in the
ninth century. The
Uyghurs in
Turfan and
Qomul founded Qocho and adopted...
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Sasanian Persian princes. The
Buddhist Uyghurs of the
Kingdom of
Qocho and
Turfan were
converted to
Islam by
conquest during a
ghazat (holy war) at the hands...
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silver coins) in
Xinjiang and the rest of China. The use of
silver coins in
Turfan persisted long
after the Tang
campaign against Karakhoja and
Chinese conquest...
- by the
Middle Persian texts of the
Manichean found in the
oasis city of
Turfan in
Chinese Turkistan (Sinkiang). This led to
certain degree of regionalisation"...
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narrative that was
received primarily in
Manichaean literature and
known at
Turfan. However, the
earliest known traditions for the book
originate in Aramaic...
