Turpan Khanate
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Was a khanate located in modern-day Xinjiang.
Establishment
January 1369: The Dughlat Qamar-ud-din Khan Dughlat rebelled and killed Ilyas Khoja of Moghulistan in 1368, taking the throne for himself. Ilyas Khoja's brother Khizr Khoja fled to Turpan where he set up his own independent realm.
Chronology
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1. Events
January 1371: Yingchang was seized by the Ming shortly after the death of Northern Yuan ruler Toghon Temür (r. 1333-1370).
January 1391: Khizr Khoja assumed power in Moghulistan.
January 1487: When Moghulistan ruler Yunus died in 1486, his realm was divided between the Yarkent Khanate, ruled by Mahmud Khan in the west, and the Turpan Khanate, ruled by Ahmad Alaq in the northeast.
January 1489: The Turpan Khanate conquers Hami.
January 1490: Khan Ahmad Alaq was driven out of Hami by the Ming Dynasty.
January 1500: In 1499 Turpan Khan Ahmad retook Kashgar and Yengisar from Mirza Abu Bakr Dughlat.
January 1504: After the death of Ahmad, Mansur Khan was the last khan of a united Moghulistan from 1503.
January 1515: The Yarkent Khanate and Turpan Khanate broke off from Moghulistan (the Eastern Chagatai Khanate).
Disestablishment
January 1658: After Muhammad's death in 1570, the Turpan Khanate fades from historical texts. The last thing heard of them are embassies sent from Turpan to Beijing in 1647 and 1657. The Qing dynasty regarded them as embassies from a genuine Chagatayid.
