Tacheng

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"Ruins in Chuguchak" by Vasily Vereshchagin (1869)
"Ruins in Chuguchak" by Vasily Vereshchagin (1869)

Tacheng, (Chinese: 塔城; pinyin: Tǎchéng), or Qoqek, is a county-level city (1994 est. pop. 56,400) and the capital of Tacheng Prefecture, in northern Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.

The city is sometimes called Tarbaghatay or Tarbagatai, and local Turkic speakers know it as Chöchek, Chawchak or Chuguchak.

It is located in the Dzungarian basin, some 10 km from the Kazakhstan border. Long a major center for trade with Central Asia, it is an agricultural hub. Its industries include food processing, textiles, and utilities.

The city suffered much destruction in 1865, during the fighting between the Qing forces and the Dungan and Uyghur rebels.

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Islamic Biographical Dictionary of the Eastern Kazakh Steppe, 1770-1912. Qurban-'Ali Khalidi. Ed. Allen J. Frank and Mirkasyim A. Usmanov. Inner Asian Library no. 12. Leiden: Brill, 2004.

Light, Nathan. Light, Nathan. Qazaqs of China: The Local Processes of History. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana Center on Global Change and World Peace, Occasional Paper No. 22, 1994. http://homepages.utoledo.edu/nlight/qazaqs.htm

Light, Nathan. "Kazakhs of the Tarbaghatai: Ethno-History Through a Novel." The Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, 17/2 ( 1993): 91-102. http://homepages.utoledo.edu/nlight/kaztarb.htm

Saguchi Toru. "Kazak Pastoralists on the Tarbaghatai Frontier under the Ch'ing." In: Proceedings of the International Conference on China Border Area Studies. Lin En-hsien [Lin Enxian], ed. Taipei: National Chengchi University, 1985, pp. 953-996.

Wiens, Herold J. Change in the Ethnography and Land Use of the Ili Valley and Region, Chinese Turkestan. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 59, No. 4. (Dec., 1969), pp. 753-775.


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Coordinates: 46°45′N, 82°59′E


Administrative Divisions of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Provincial Capital:Ürümqi City)
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Turfan Prefecture Turfan City | Toksun County | Piqan County
Hami Prefecture Kumul City | Yiwu County | Barkol Kazakh Autonomous County
Hotan Prefecture Hotan City | Hotan County | Lop County | Minfeng County | Pishan County | Qira County | Keriya County | Karakax County
Aksu Prefecture Aksu City | Wensu County | Xayar County | Baicheng County | Awat County | Kuqa County | Kalpin County | Toksu County | Uqturpan County
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Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture Artux City | Akqi County | Ulugqat County | Akto County
Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture Korla City | Hejing County | Yuli County | Hoxud County | Qiemo County | Bohu County | Luntai County | Ruoqiang County | Yanqi Hui Autonomous County
Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture Changji City | Fukang City | Miquan City | Qitai County | Manas County | Jimsar County | Hutubi County | Mori Kazakh Autonomous County
Börtala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture Börtala City | Jinghe County | Wenquan County
Autonomous Regional Districts directly under the jurisdiction of the County-level Cities Shihezi City | Aral City | Tumushuke City | Wujiaqu City

Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture

(The Tacheng Prefecture and Altay Prefectures are under the provincial jurisdiction of the Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture.)
Autonomous Territories Yining City | Kuitun City | Yining County | Tekes County | Nilka County | Zhaosu County | Xinyuan County | Huocheng County | Gongliu County | Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County
Tacheng Prefecture Tacheng City | Wusu City | Emin County | Yumin County | Shawan County | Toli County | Hoboksar Mongol Autonomous County
Altay Prefecture Altay City | Qinggil County | Jeminay County | Fuyun County | Burqin County | Fuhai County | Habahe County