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Karasahr or Karashar (Uyghur: قاراشەھەر, romanized: Qarasheher), which was originally known in the Tocharian languages as Ārśi (or Arshi), Qarašähär, or Agni or the Chinese derivative Yanqi (Chinese: 焉耆; pinyin: Yānqí; Wade–Giles: Yen-ch'i), is an ancient town on the Silk Road and the capital of Yanqi Hui Autonomous County in the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture ...
Karasahr or Karashar ( Uyghur: قاراشەھەر, romanized: Qarasheher ), which was originally known in the Tocharian languages as Ārśi (or Arshi), Qarašähär, or Agni or the Chinese derivative Yanqi ( Chinese: 焉耆; pinyin: Yānqí; Wade–Giles: Yen-ch'i ), is an ancient town on the Silk Road and the capital of Yanqi Hui Autonomous ...
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The Tang campaign against Kucha was a military campaign led by the Tang dynasty general Ashina She'er against the Tarim Basin oasis state of Kucha in Xinjiang, which was aligned with the Western Turkic Khaganate. The campaign began in 648 and ended on 19 January 649, after the surrender of the Kuchan forces following a forty-day siege in Aksu.
- 648 – 19 January 649
- Decisive Tang victory, Tang military garrison installed in Kucha, Tang establishes control over the northern Tarim Basin
The Tocharians, or Tokharians ( US: / toʊˈkɛəriən / or / toʊˈkɑːriən /; [5] UK: / tɒˈkɑːriən / ), [6] were speakers of Tocharian languages, Indo-European languages known from around 7,600 documents from around 400 to 1200 AD, found on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin (modern-day Xinjiang, China ). [7]
Author: Laxman Burdak, IFS (Retd.) Karasahr or Karashar or Yanqi (Chinese: 焉耆; pinyin: Yānqí; Wade–Giles Yen-ch’i; Sanskrit: अग्निदेश Agnideśa), meaning 'black city' in Uyghur languages, is an ancient town on the Silk Road and the capital of Yanqi Hui Autonomous County in the Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture ...
Songzhou. Baekje. In the years following Tang Taizong 's subjugation of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate, the emperor began to exert his military power toward the oasis city-states of the Tarim Basin (part of the area known in Chinese histories as the Western Regions ). These states, populated by Tocharian and Saka peoples, were loosely allied with ...
