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6 unusual facts about Tianshan


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According to the Chinese histories, the Shiji and Hanshu, the original inhabitants east of the Tianshan to the beginning of the first millennium AD, the Jushi, were a people who 'lived in felt-tents, kept moving in pursuit of water and grass for grazing, and had a fair knowledge of farming.'

Islam during the Qing Dynasty

Similarly, the Qing made members of was a member of the Ak Taghliq clan of East Turkestan Khojas, rulers in the western Tarim Basin, south of the Tianshan Mountains.

Karhana

The Karahana controlled the vast areas south of the Tianshan Mountains and Hezhong (Samarkand) in Central Asia.

Tianshan

Tianshan Town, Ar Horqin Banner, a town in Ar Horqin Banner, Inner Mongolia, China

Yarkand deer

Both populations are isolated from one another by the Tianshan Mountains and probably form a primordial subgroup of Red Deer.

Zhizhi Chanyu

In 44 BC he was reported to be on the north slope of the Tianshan in modern Xinjiang.


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Edward Delmar Morgan

In 1879, he translated From Kulja across the Tien Shan (TianShan) to Lobnor by Przevalsky, now edited by Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth.


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