Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figure and maps
- List of contributors
- Note on transliteration
- List of abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- PART ONE THE RISE OF THE CHINGGISIDS
- Part Two LEGACIES OF THE MONGOL CONQUESTS
- Part Three CHINGGISID DECLINE: 1368–c. 1700
- Part Four NOMADS AND SETTLED PEOPLES IN INNER ASIA AFTER THE TIMURIDS
- 12 Uzbeks, Qazaqs and Turkmens
- 13 The western steppe: Volga-Ural region, Siberia and the Crimea
- 14 Eastern Central Asia (Xinjiang): 1300–1800
- 15 The Chinggisid restoration in Central Asia: 1500–1785
- 16 The western steppe: the Volga-Ural region, Siberia and the Crimea under Russian rule
- Part Five NEW IMPERIAL MANDATES AND THE END OF THE CHINGGISID ERA (18th–19th CENTURIES)
- Bibliography
- Index
15 - The Chinggisid restoration in Central Asia: 1500–1785
from Part Four - NOMADS AND SETTLED PEOPLES IN INNER ASIA AFTER THE TIMURIDS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figure and maps
- List of contributors
- Note on transliteration
- List of abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- PART ONE THE RISE OF THE CHINGGISIDS
- Part Two LEGACIES OF THE MONGOL CONQUESTS
- Part Three CHINGGISID DECLINE: 1368–c. 1700
- Part Four NOMADS AND SETTLED PEOPLES IN INNER ASIA AFTER THE TIMURIDS
- 12 Uzbeks, Qazaqs and Turkmens
- 13 The western steppe: Volga-Ural region, Siberia and the Crimea
- 14 Eastern Central Asia (Xinjiang): 1300–1800
- 15 The Chinggisid restoration in Central Asia: 1500–1785
- 16 The western steppe: the Volga-Ural region, Siberia and the Crimea under Russian rule
- Part Five NEW IMPERIAL MANDATES AND THE END OF THE CHINGGISID ERA (18th–19th CENTURIES)
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
During the first decade and a half of the sixteenth century, the last Timurids to hold power in Central Asia were ousted from all the cities and towns north of the Amu Darya by the Abu'l-Khayrid/Shibanids, a clan of the descendants of Chinggis Khan through his eldest son Jochi. At the end of the first decade, a collateral Shibanid clan, the ʿArabshahid, which would be continually at odds with the Abu'l-Khayrids, seized control of the Amu Darya Delta region and then consolidated its hold over the towns and cities of the lower Amu Darya, the historic Khwārazm (Khorezm).
The contested territory
The landscape on which this restoration of Chinggisid sovereignty was reestablished is an irregular rectangle some 2,400 kilometres from east to west and 1,600 from north to south, an area about the size of India. Its northern region was known at the time as the Qïpchaq steppe (Dasht-i Qipchāq, today the Qazaq steppe), a grassland stretching from the Volga Basin to the Jungarian Gate, the narrow corridor separating the Altai and Tarbagatai mountain ranges. To the west it is bounded by the Caspian Sea and the lower Volga. To the east, the eastern slopes of the Tien Shan range and the oasal centres at the foot of those slopes (Kucha, Āqsu, Kashghar, Yārkand and Khotan) served to mark its furthest extent.
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- The Cambridge History of Inner AsiaThe Chinggisid Age, pp. 277 - 302Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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