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The name "Uyghur" reappeared after the Soviet Union took the 9th-century ethnonym from the Uyghur Khaganate, then reapplied it to all non-nomadic Turkic Muslims of Xinjiang. [159] Many contemporary western scholars, however, do not consider the modern Uyghurs to be of direct linear descent from the old Uyghur Khaganate of Mongolia.
The modern Uyghur language is not descended from Old Uyghur; rather, it is a descendant of the Karluk languages spoken by the Kara-Khanid Khanate. [5] After the fall of the Uyghur Khaganate, most Uyghurs settled in the Tarim Basin, while smaller numbers settled in other parts of northern China, where they became known as the "Yellow Uyghurs" or ...
Akhmad Alach, the Khan of Eastern Moghulistan from 1487 and the Kyrgyz Khanate from 1484 until 1504; Makhmud Khan, the Khan of Tashkent from 1487 until c. 1502 or 1503 and of the Moghuls of western Moghulistan from 1487 until 1508
East Turkestan or East Turkistan (Uyghur: شەرقىي تۈركىستان, ULY: Sherqiy Türkistan, UKY: Шәрқий Туркистан), also called Uyghuristan (Uyghur: ئۇيغۇرىستان, UKY: Уйғуристан), is a loosely-defined geographical region in the northwestern part of the People's Republic of China, on the cross roads of East and Central Asia. [1]
Uyghur language, a Turkic language spoken primarily by the Uyghurs Old Uyghur language, a different Turkic language spoken in the Uyghur Khaganate; Uyghur alphabets, any of four systems used to write the language; Uyghur Khaganate, a Turkic empire in the mid 8th and 9th centuries; Uygur, Kulp, a village in Turkey
Some Uyghur Communists proposed the name "Tian Shan Uyghur Autonomous Region" instead. The Han Communists in the central government denied the name Xinjiang was colonialist and denied that the central government could be colonialists both because they were communists and because China was a victim of colonialism.
Dolan (Uyghur: دولان, Долан; Simplified Chinese: 刀朗 or 多朗) refers to a people or region of what is now Xinjiang Province, China.People who call themselves Dolan can be found in Awat County, the Yarkand River valley, the Tarim River valley and the Lop Nur region of present-day Xinjiang.
The names of "Shufu County" and nearby "Shule County", transliterations of local language names from the Han dynasty corresponds to its Uyghur names, "Kona Xahar" (meaning 'old city' [1]) and "Yengi Xahar" (New City) respectively.