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Qocho
Also known as Kara-Khoja Kingdom, Idiqut, West Uighur kingdom, West Uyghur kingdom, Tianshan Uyghur kingdom
thumb|Man of Gaochang (, [[Turfan) in Entrance of the foreign visitors (, 937–976 CE)]] Qocho or Kara-Khoja (), also known as Idiqut ("holy wealth"; "glory"; "lord of fortune"), was a Uyghur kingdom created in 843, with strong Chinese Buddhist and Tocharian influences. It was founded by refugees fleeing the destruction of the Uyghur Khaganate after being driven out by the Yenisei Kirghiz. They made their winter capital in Qocho (also called Gaochang or Qara-Khoja, near modern Turpan) and summer capital in Beshbalik (modern Jimsar County, also known as Tingzhou). Its population is referred to a
Key facts
- Country.year_start
- 843
- Country.native_name
- 高昌回鶻
- Country.conventional_long_name
- Qocho Kingdom
- Country.common_name
- Qocho
- Country.government_type
- Monarchy
- Country.capital
- Gaochang (Qocho), Beshbalik (Beiting/Tingzhou)
- Country.religion
- Manichaeism (official initially 843–965), Buddhism (Later declared as official)Church of the East
- Country.year_end
- 14th century
- Country.common_languages
- Old Uyghur, Middle Chinese; also Tocharian and Sogdian in early years
- Country.p1
- Uyghur Khaganate
- Country.p2
- Tibetan Empire
- Country.s1
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Article
16 sectionsContents
- History
- Religion
- Manichaeism
- Chinese Buddhism
- Ethnicity
- Religious conflict
- Kara-Khanid Khanate
- Mongol rule
- Conquest by Muslim Chagatais
- List of kings (''idiquts'')
- Image gallery
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- Further reading
thumb|Man of Gaochang (, [[Turfan) in Entrance of the foreign visitors (, 937–976 CE)]] Qocho or Kara-Khoja (), also known as Idiqut ("holy wealth"; "glory"; "lord of fortune"), was a Uyghur kingdom created in 843, with strong Chinese Buddhist and Tocharian influences. It was founded by refugees fleeing the destruction of the Uyghur Khaganate after being driven out by the Yenisei Kirghiz. They made their winter capital in Qocho (also called Gaochang or Qara-Khoja, near modern Turpan) and summer capital in Beshbalik (modern Jimsar County, also known as Tingzhou). Its population is referred to as the "Xizhou Uyghurs" after the old Tang Chinese name for Gaochang, the "Qocho Uyghurs" after their capital, the "Kucha Uyghurs" after another city they controlled, or the "Arslan ("Lion") Uyghurs" after their king's title.
==History==