Chimgi-Tura
thumb|Tumen (Chimgi-Tura) on Sigismund von Herberstein's map, published in 1549 Chimgi-Tura or Chingi-Tura (, ) was a medieval city in the 12th to 16th centuries located in Western Siberia. After the Russian conquest, it was refounded as Tyumen.
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thumb|Tumen (Chimgi-Tura) on Sigismund von Herberstein's map, published in 1549 Chimgi-Tura or Chingi-Tura (, ) was a medieval city in the 12th to 16th centuries located in Western Siberia. After the Russian conquest, it was refounded as Tyumen.
== Name == The word “tura” (тора/tora) in Siberian Tatar means “city”, “fortress”.