Karachahr

The town of Karachahr (or Karashahr), in Mandarin Yanqi (焉耆; Pinyin: Yānçí; Ouïghour: يەنجى/Yenci), is located in the Chinese autonomous region Xinjiang, in the north of the Désert of Taklamakan. Its name comes from the Turkish will qara “black” and of Iranian shahr “city”, and thus means “Black City”. It is especially remarkable by its history, because it is on the old territory of the kingdom of Agni , which played a big role during thousand-year-old Ier of our era. The term Yanqi was then the Chinese designation of this kingdom. Agnéens, which was large warriors going down from the Yuezhi (belonging themselves to the group tokharien), were distinguished in the year 75 by the massacre from a Chinese garrison from 2000 men and his chief, the general Guard Chen Mu. In the year 13, they had killed another general Guard sent by China, daN Qin. They thus resisted the attempts of the Dynastie Han to control the Silk route, on which them kingdom was.

At the end of thousand-year-old Ier, the Ouïgours were installed on their territory and assimilated them. They have always present there, but one also finds in the area of Karachahr a Mongolian ethnos group: Torguut (see Histoire of Mongolia), which came there to raise their herds there by preserving a wandering lifestyle. The basin of Karachahr lends itself well to this activity, and the rivers which traverse it, like Yulduz, allow the practice of a irrigated Agriculture. The city is to 24 km of the more big lake of Xinjiang, the Bagrash Köl.

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List of the administrative subdivisions of Xinjiang

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