China/Kasghar/Turpan/(Silkroad 2002) Part 7

Welcome to my my channel you can find almost 1000 films of more than 70 countries. See the playlist on my youtube ! Turpan also known as Turfan or Tulufan, is a prefecture-level city located in the east of Xinjiang, People’s Republic of China. It has an area of 69,324 square kilometres (26,766 sq mi) and a population of 570,000 (2003) In 803, the Uyghurs of the Uyghur Khaganate seized Turfan from the Tibetans. The Uyghur Khaganate however was destroyed by the Kirghiz and its capital Ordu-Baliq in Mongolia sacked in 840. The defeat resulted in the mass movement of the Uyghurs out of Mongolia and their dispersal into Gansu and Central Asia, and many joined other Uyghurs already present in Turfan. In the early twentieth century, a collection of some 900 Christian manuscripts dating to the ninth to the twelfth centuries was found at a monastery site at Turfan.[20] The Uyghurs established a Kingdom in the Tu