{"id":65,"date":"2018-07-26T18:50:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T18:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tilim.org\/u\/?p=65"},"modified":"2023-10-30T12:27:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T12:27:21","slug":"east-turkistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uyghurinfo.org\/en\/east-turkistan\/","title":{"rendered":"EAST TURKISTAN"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Urumqi – The Capital City of East Turkistan<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n

Brief History<\/strong><\/p>\n

East Turkistan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, lies in the very heart of Asia. Situated along the fabled ancient Silk Road, it has been a prominent centertur of commerce for more than 2,000 years. The land of East Turkistan gave birth to many great civilizations and at various points in history has been a cradle of scholarship, culture and power.<\/p>\n

The current territorial size of East Turkistan is 1.82 million square kilometers. The neighboring Chinese province annexed part of the territory as a result of the Chinese communist invasion of 1949.<\/p>\n

East Turkistan borders China and Mongolia to the east, Russia to the north, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India to the west, and Tibet to the south.<\/p>\n

East Turkistan has a rich history and a diverse geography. It has grand deserts, magnificent mountains, and beautiful rivers, grasslands and forests.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n

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East Turkistan Flag <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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\"The
The National Emblem of East Turkistan <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brief History East Turkistan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, lies in the very heart of Asia. Situated along the fabled ancient Silk Road, it has been a prominent centertur of commerce for more than 2,000 years. The land of East Turkistan gave birth to many great civilizations and at various READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurinfo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurinfo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurinfo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurinfo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurinfo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurinfo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurinfo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurinfo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurinfo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uyghurinfo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}