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Qocho
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Also known as Kara-Khoja Kingdom, Idiqut, West Uighur kingdom, West Uyghur kingdom, Tianshan Uyghur kingdom

thumb|Man of Gaochang (, [[Turfan) in Entrance of the foreign visitors (, 937–976 CE)]] Qocho or Kara-Khoja (), also known as Idiqut ("holy wealth"; "glory"; "lord of fortune"), was a Uyghur kingdom created in 843, with strong Chinese Buddhist and Tocharian influences. It was founded by refugees fleeing the destruction of the Uyghur Khaganate after being driven out by the Yenisei Kirghiz. They made their winter capital in Qocho (also called Gaochang or Qara-Khoja, near modern Turpan) and summer capital in Beshbalik (modern Jimsar County, also known as Tingzhou). Its population is referred to a

Key facts

Country.year_start
843
Country.native_name
高昌回鶻
Country.conventional_long_name
Qocho Kingdom
Country.common_name
Qocho
Country.government_type
Monarchy
Country.capital
Gaochang (Qocho), Beshbalik (Beiting/Tingzhou)
Country.religion
Manichaeism (official initially 843–965), Buddhism (Later declared as official)Church of the East
Country.year_end
14th century
Country.common_languages
Old Uyghur, Middle Chinese; also Tocharian and Sogdian in early years
Country.p1
Uyghur Khaganate
Country.p2
Tibetan Empire
Country.s1
Western Liao
Country.s2
Chagatai Khanate
Country.image_map
Qocho Uyghurs.png
Country.image_map_caption
Territory of Qocho c. 1000
Country.image_map2_size
300
Country.title_leader
Idiqut
Country.leader1
Pan Tekin

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

16 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Religion
  • Manichaeism
  • Chinese Buddhism
  • Ethnicity
  • Religious conflict
  • Kara-Khanid Khanate
  • Mongol rule
  • Conquest by Muslim Chagatais
  • List of kings (''idiquts'')
  • Image gallery
  • See also
  • References
  • Citations
  • Sources
  • Further reading

thumb|Man of Gaochang (, [[Turfan) in Entrance of the foreign visitors (, 937–976 CE)]] Qocho or Kara-Khoja (), also known as Idiqut ("holy wealth"; "glory"; "lord of fortune"), was a Uyghur kingdom created in 843, with strong Chinese Buddhist and Tocharian influences. It was founded by refugees fleeing the destruction of the Uyghur Khaganate after being driven out by the Yenisei Kirghiz. They made their winter capital in Qocho (also called Gaochang or Qara-Khoja, near modern Turpan) and summer capital in Beshbalik (modern Jimsar County, also known as Tingzhou). Its population is referred to as the "Xizhou Uyghurs" after the old Tang Chinese name for Gaochang, the "Qocho Uyghurs" after their capital, the "Kucha Uyghurs" after another city they controlled, or the "Arslan ("Lion") Uyghurs" after their king's title.

==History==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qocho” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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