Tacheng
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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.
[edit] References
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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- Map of the City of Tacheng (Chinese)
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