Moghulistan

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Moghulistan is a geographic unit inclusive of Zungharia, Uyghuristan in the Turpan Basin area and parts of modern Kazakhstan and Kyrghystan between Xianjing and Transoxania in the Tarim basin.

1 Etymology
2 History
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Etymology

Moghul or Mughal is the Persian form of Mongol in reference to the eastern branch of Turco-Mongolian Chagatai Khans.

[edit] History

Buddhist, Christian and Shamanist nomads of the Issyk Kul and Isi areas rebelled against against Tarmashirin and shifted allegiance from his realm in the 1330s, when he converted to Islam to a new khan. They ruled a region of nomadic tribesmen and oasis-dwellers from the 14th to the 17th century, and by the time they were overrun by another Mongol wave of the Zunghars, they had also become fully muslim. In the 16th century the Sufi order of the Naqshbandi.