Timur Beg (General)

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Timur Beg ( Uighur تیمور بیگ, Chinese  铁木尔 伯克 , Pinyin tiě mù ěr bó kè , also: Timur Sijan , German Timur General; * 1886 , Kuqa , Aksu ; † August 9, 1933 , Kashgar ) was a Uighur rebel leader in Xinjiang in 1933. He was at the Battle of Kashgar and had previously been involved in the 1932 Turpan Rebellion. He allied himself with the Turkish nationalist Young Kashgar Party and called himself the 'Timur Shah '. Like the Bughra brothers, he wanted to separate from China. In August 1933, his units were attacked by the Sino-Muslim 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army) under General Ma Zhancang . Timur was shot and beheaded. His head was displayed in front of the Idgah Mosque in Kashgar .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Based on the conqueror Timur .
  2. ^ Andrew DW Forbes: Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949 . CUP Archives, Cambridge, England 1986, ISBN 0-521-25514-7 , p. 83 (accessed June 28, 2010).
  3. ↑ S. Frederick Starr: Xinjiang: China's Muslim borderland . ME Sharpe, 2004, ISBN 0-7656-1318-2 , p. 77 (accessed June 28, 2010).
  4. ^ Andrew DW Forbes: Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949 . CUP Archives, Cambridge, England 1986, ISBN 0-521-25514-7 , p. 93 (accessed June 28, 2010).

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personal data
SURNAME Timur Beg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES تیمور بیگ (Uighur); 铁木尔 伯克 (Chinese); tiě mù ěr bó kè (Pinyin); Timur Sijan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uighur rebel leader
DATE OF BIRTH 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuqa , Aksu
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1933
Place of death Kashgar