Kumul Khanate
Kumul Khanate قۇمۇل خانلىقى 哈密札薩克旗 | |||||||||
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| 1696–1930 | |||||||||
Hami prefecture (red), location of the Kumul Khanate, in Xinjiang (orange) (modern borders shown) | |||||||||
| Status | Banner of the Qing dynasty (1696–1912) Vassal of the Republic of China (1912–1930) | ||||||||
| Capital | Kumul, Xinjiang | ||||||||
| Common languages | Turki (Chagatai language), Uyghur, Chinese language | ||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||||||
| Demonym | Kumulik | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Khan | |||||||||
• 1867–1882 | Muhammad Shah | ||||||||
• 1882–1930 | Maqsud Shah (last) | ||||||||
| Chancellor/Baig | |||||||||
• 1922–1930 | Yulbars Khan (last) | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1696 | ||||||||
| 1930 | |||||||||
| Currency | Xinjiang coins | ||||||||
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| Today part of | China | ||||||||
The Kumul Khanate was a semi-autonomous feudal Turco-Mongol khanate (equivalent to a banner in Mongolia) within the Qing dynasty and then the Republic of China until it was abolished by Xinjiang governor Jin Shuren in 1930. The khanate was located in present-day Hami prefecture of Xinjiang.