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    Turpan (redirect from Turfan City)
    Turpan (also known as Turfan; Chinese: 吐鲁番; Uyghur: تۇرپان) is a prefecture-level city located in the east of the autonomous region of Xinjiang, China...
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    The Turpan water system or Turfan karez system Uyghur: كارىز, romanized: kariz) in Turpan, located in the Turpan Depression, Xinjiang, China, is a vertical...
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    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...
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    吐魯番汗國), also known as the Eastern Moghulistan, Kingdom of Uyghurstan or Turfan Khanate, was a Sunni Muslim Turco-Mongol khanate ruled by the descendants...
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    The German Turfan expeditions were conducted between 1902 and 1914. The four expeditions to Turfan in Xinjiang, China, were initiated by Albert Grünwedel...
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  • 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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    Uyghur General Khojis (-1781), bey of Turfan, who later settled in Beijing. Painting by a European Jesuit artist at the Chinese court in 1775....
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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...
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    hence its alternate name, the "Big Buddha Temple". Afterwards, Khojis of Us-Turfan submitted to the Qing dynasty. After all of these battles, Amursana fled...
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    Emin Khoja, also Amīn Khoja, Emin Khwaja, was a Uighur leader from Turfan who revolted against the Mongol Buddhist Dzungar Khanate in 1720, while the Dzungars...
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