[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Kashmir](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir) › [Tārīkh-i Rashīdī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi) › [The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross) › 9.1.3 # The Rashīdī History 9.1.3 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi (Elias, Ross) 9.1.3 - **Language:** English ### [9.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.9.1.3) Within the district of Turfan, and only some twenty-seven miles to the south-east of it, stands the little known, but ancient, town of Kara-Khoja, which has borne also, in the course of its history, several other names, the chief of them having come to us, through the Chinese, in the forms of Kao-Chang and Ho-Chao. The Chinese annals of the Sung and Yuan dynasties mention this place frequently, and make it clear that from the ninth century to within the twelfth, Kao-Chang was the capital of a Uighur kingdom which bordered on the north with another Uighur state, called Bishbalik (the modern Urumtsi), and on the west with a third known, anciently, as Kui-tze, Kus, etc., and now as Kuchar. These States, collectively, appear to have been the home and centre of the Uighur race, until a much later date than when, in the twelfth century, they lost their political independence and became subject to the Kara-Khitai. It would not be improbable, therefore, that the region having become known to neighbouring nations on the west as Uighuristan, when independent, should have retained that name long afterwards, though subject to foreign rulers. - [Previous: 9.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.9.1.2) - [Next: 9.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.9.1.4) - [Up: 9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.9.1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.9.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.kashmir.tarikh-i-rashidi~en-ross.9.1.3) · Pramāṇa