Turpan (Uyghur: تۇرپان), generally known in English as Turfan (Chinese: 吐鲁番), is a prefecture-level city located in the east of the autonomous region of...

The Turpan water system or Turfan karez system Uyghur: كارىز, romanized: kariz) in Turpan, located in the Turpan Depression, Xinjiang, China, is a vertical...

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...

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 German Turfan expeditions were conducted between 1902 and 1914. The four expeditions to Turfan in Xinjiang, China, were initiated by Albert Grünwedel...

seized Hami from Esen in 1473. Ali was driven by the Ming dynasty into Turfan, but he reoccupied it after Ming left. Esen taishi's Mongols recaptured...

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...

census[update] a population of 180,000. Uqturpan is also spelled Uchturpan and Uch-Turfan. During the Battle of Aksu (717), the Umayyad Caliphate and their Turgesh...

narrative that was received primarily in Manichaean literature and known at Turfan. However, the earliest known traditions for the book originate in Aramaic...

Uyghur General Khojis (d. 1781), bey of Turfan, who later settled in Beijing; painting by a European Jesuit artist at the Chinese court in 1775...