Karasahr

Karasahr or Karashar (), which was originally known in the Tocharian languages as Ārśi (or Arshi), Qarašähär, or Agni or the Chinese derivative Yanqi (), is an ancient town on the Silk Road and the capital of Yanqi Hui Autonomous County in the Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Karashahr
Settlement.other_name: Ārśi; Yanqi; Agni; Kara Shahr; Yenki
Settlement.native_name: Qarasheher
Settlement.official_name: Karashar
Settlement.settlement_type: Town
Settlement.image_skyline: Mosque yanqi xinjiang.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Karasahr downtown mosque
Settlement.pushpin_map: China Xinjiang#China
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Xinjiang
Settlement.pushpin_relief: 1
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: China
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Autonomous region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Xinjiang
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Autonomous prefecture
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Autonomous county
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Yanqi

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: tribe
Country: China
Located in: Yanqi Hui Autonomous County
Area: 8.1
Image: Mosque yanqi xinjiang.jpg

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described by source: History of Northern Dynasties

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Encyclopedic overview

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it had a population of 29,000, growing to 31,773 people in 2006; 16,032 persons of which were Han, 7781 people Hui, 7154 people Uyghur, 628 Mongol and 178 other ethnicities and an agricultural population of 1078 people.

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