Yarkand Khanate
| Yarkent Khanate | |||||
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| Capital | Yarkent | ||||
| Languages | Chagatai language | ||||
| Religion |
Islam (1514–1705) |
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| Government | Monarchy | ||||
| Khagan, Khan | |||||
| • | 1514–1533 (first) | Sultan Said Khan | |||
| • | 1695–1705 (last) | Sultan Muhammad Mumin Khan ( Akbash Khan) | |||
| History | |||||
| • | Established | 1514 | |||
| • | Disestablished | 1705 | |||
| Area | 3,000,000 km2 (1,200,000 sq mi) | ||||
The Yarkent Khanate was a state ruled by the Genghisid Chagatais, the majority of whose subject population was Turkic in Central Asia.
Yarkent served as the capital for the Khanate, and was also known as the Yarkent State (Mamlakati Yarkand), from the establishment of the Yarkent Khanate to its fall (1514–1705). The previous dughlat state of Mirza Abu Bakr Dughlat (1465-1514) of Kashgaria also used Yarkent as the capital of state.
The Khanate was predominantly Uyghur; some of its most populated cities were Hotan, Yarkent, Kashgar, Yangihissar, Aksu, Uchturpan, Kucha, Karashar, Turpan and Kumul. It enjoyed continued dominance in the region for about 200 years until it was conquered by the Dzungar Khan, Tsewang Rabtan in 1713.
In the first half of the 14th century the Chagatai Khanate collapsed; its eastern part became Moghulistan, which was created by Tughluk Timur Khan in 1347 with the capital centered in Almalik, around the Ili River Valley. The reigning dynasty of the Yarkent Khanate originated and came from this state, which existed for more than a century and eventually split in 1462 into two parts: the mostly nomadic Moghulistan north of Tengri tagh and an independent state with its capital in Aksu, south of Tengri tagh, under Dust Muhammad. It comprised all the settled lands of Eastern Kashgaria, as well as regions of Turpan and Kumul, and was known by the time as Uyghurstan (according to Balkh and Indian sources of the 16th and 17th centuries).
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