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Xinjiang Ancient City

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Xinjiang Ancient City
Xinjiang Ancient City
Xinjiang Ancient City
Xinjiang Ancient City
Xinjiang Ancient City
Xinjiang Ancient City
Xinjiang Ancient City
Xinjiang Ancient City
Xinjiang Ancient City
Xinjiang Ancient City
Xinjiang Ancient City
Xinjiang Ancient City
Xinjiang Ancient City
Xinjiang Ancient City
Xinjiang Ancient City
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Within Xinjiang County, Xinjiang County 043100, China

The recorded history of the area now known as Xinjiang dates to the 2nd millennium BC. There have been many empires, primarily Han Chinese, Turkic, and Mongol, that have ruled over the region, including the Yuezhi, Xiongnu, Han dynasty, Gaochang, Kingdom of Khotan, Sixteen Kingdoms of the Jin dynasty , Turkic Khaganate, Tang dynasty, Tibetan Empire, Uyghur Khaganate, Kara-Khanid Khanate, Kingdom of Qocho, Qara Khitai, Mongol Empire, Yuan dynasty, Chagatai Khanate, Yarkent Khanate, Dzungar Khanate, and Qing dynasty. Xinjiang was previously known as Xiyu , under the Han dynasty, which drove the Xiongnu empire out of the region in 60 BCE in an effort to secure the profitable Silk Road, but was renamed Xinjiang when the region was reconquered by the Manchu-led Qing dynasty in 1759. Xinjiang is now a part of the People's Republic of China, having been so since its founding year of 1949.
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