Ganzhou Uyghur Kingdom

The Ganzhou Uyghur Kingdom, the Hexi Uyghurs, was the Turkic Buddhist state of the Gansu corridor, founded in 894 when Pangteqin, the Huaijian Khagan of the Yaglakar clan, raised his banner at Ganzhou after the Uyghur Khaganate fell. Uyghur refugees had drifted into Qinzhou, Liangzhou, Ganzhou, Suzhou, Guazhou and Shazhou since the 880s: in 874 Tibetan Empire Wenmo and Han slave soldiers had driven them out, and the Guiyi lost the corridor in 881. Uyghurs had lived at Ganzhou since 840 at the latest, and Pangteqin gathered them into a khanate on the old Silk Road throat. Its people took Buddhism in great numbers while its horsemen guarded the Hexi towns. For a century and a half the Ganzhou khans balanced Dunhuang's Guiyi rulers against the rising Tanguts, until the Western Xia swallowed both Hexi powers in the early eleventh century and the survivors trekked to Guazhou and the Qinghai north.