Yarkent Khanate
Yarkent Khanate یارکند سعیدیه خانلیغی يەركەن سەئىدىيە خانلىقى 葉爾羌汗國 | |||||||||
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| 1514–1705 | |||||||||
The Yarkent Khanate, Turpan Khanate, and contemporary Asian polities c. 1600 | |||||||||
| Capital | Yarkent | ||||||||
| Common languages | Turki (Chagatai language) | ||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Khan | |||||||||
• 1514–1533 (first) | Sultan Said Khan | ||||||||
• 1695–1705 (last) | Sultan Muhammad Mumin Khan | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1514 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1705 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | China Kyrgyzstan | ||||||||
The Yarkent Khanate, also known as the Yarkand Khanate and the Kashghar Khanate, was a Sunni Muslim Turkic state ruled by the Turkified Mongol descendants of Chagatai Khan who had intermixed with the local Uyghur Turkic population. It was founded by Sultan Said Khan in 1514 as a western offshoot of Moghulistan, itself an eastern offshoot of the Chagatai Khanate. It was eventually conquered by the Dzungar Khanate in 1705.