Dzungaria

* By adding Tibet, Outer Mongolia, Turkistan, Dzungaria, and Nepal, thus increasing the number of inhabitants from 150 million to 450 million.

The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

Books languish beneath half consumed pints of chunky monkey, lips chapped, beneath the fortune of the take home test, jaws open, and beneath the mistaken ease of plagiarism whose impetus sprang from empty dimebags like racehorses in Dzungaria.

The New Lycanthropy 2009

It then continued across southern Dzungaria, over the western spur of the Tianshan Mountains to northern West Turkistan, all of which was held by the Qarluqs until the 790s and then the Uighurs, and finally on to Arab-held Sogdia.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 12 The Establishment of Buddhist Kingdoms by the Uighurs 2006

The Uighurs took advantage of the situation and, driving their nominal vassals, the Qarluqs, out of Dzungaria and parts of northern West Turkistan, took from Tang China Kucha as well.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 11 Tibetan Politico-Religious Maneuverings at the End of the Eighth Century 2006

In 840, after a particularly severe winter of heavy snowfall had decimated the Uighur herds, the Kyrgyz overthrew the Orkhon Empire in Mongolia, Dzungaria, and the eastern portion of northern West Turkistan. ­

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 12 The Establishment of Buddhist Kingdoms by the Uighurs 2006

After the peace treaties with the Tibetans and Tang China in 821, the Uighurs gradually became weakened by internal discord and the difficulties imposed by the Tibetan wedge dividing their territories in Mongolia and Dzungaria.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 12 The Establishment of Buddhist Kingdoms by the Uighurs 2006

The Eastern Turks, another Tibetan ally, then entered the power struggle for Sogdia and, coming through Dzungaria, attacked the Turgish from the north, eventually capturing the Turgish homeland in Suyab.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 3 The First Encounter of the Muslims and Buddhist Asia 2006

The rest of northern West Turkistan and Dzungaria were held by the Qarluqs, and Mongolia was newly under the control of the Uighurs.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 7 The Rise of the Abbasids and Decline of Tang China 2006

Now, in 744, with the help of the Qarluqs in Dzungaria and northern West Turkistan, the Uighurs attacked and defeated the Eastern Turks and established their own Orkhon Empire in Mongolia.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 6 Further Umayyad Expansion in West Turkistan 2006

The Kyrgyz (Kirghiz) were originally a Mongolian people from the mountain forests of the present-day Altai and Tuva districts of southern Siberia north of Dzungaria.

The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire ��� 12 The Establishment of Buddhist Kingdoms by the Uighurs 2006