Shahidula
| Xaidulla | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 賽圖拉 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 赛图拉 | ||||||||
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| Uyghur name | |||||||||
| Uyghur |
شەيدۇللا
Shahidulla Шаһидулла |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Sàitúlā |
| Wade–Giles | Sai4-t'u2-la1 |
Coordinates: 36°24′49″N 77°59′17″E / 36.41361°N 77.98806°E
Xaidulla, also spelled Shahidullah or Shahidula (altitude ca. 3,646 m or 11,962 ft), or Saitula in Chinese, is a town in Pishan County in the southwestern part of Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China. It is strategically located on the upper Karakash River, just to the north of the Karakoram Pass on the old caravan route from the Tarim Basin to Ladakh. It lies next to the main Chinese road between Kashgar and Tibet, 25 km east of Mazar and 139 km west of Bazar Dara.
Xaidulla was probably the site of the Kingdom of Zihe (Chinese: 子合; pinyin: Zihé) mentioned in the Hou Hanshu. It is described as being situated in a gorge, 1,000 li (416 km) from Shule (modern Kashgar), and controlling: "350 households, 4,000 people, and 1,000 men able to bear arms."
The earlier Hanshu 96A, puts Zihe and Xiye (Chinese: 西夜; pinyin: Xiyè) under one king and states that the people are ". . . different than the Hu, their race is of the same type as the Chiang and the Di".
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