Moghulistan

Moghulistan, the Moghul Khanate or Eastern Chagatai Khanate, was the Turco-Mongol Muslim breakaway of the Chagatai realm, the land of the Moghuls north of the Tengri Tagh, on the seam of Central and East Asia. Its pastures ran from the Talas and Chu across Semirechye to the Jungarian gate, today shared by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and northwest Xinjiang, with the oasis belt of Altishahr, the six cities of Yarkand, Kashgar, Khotan, Aksu, Uch and Yengisar, to its south. Under its first khan Tughlugh Timur the Moghuls collectively embraced Islam, and under Yunus Khan their Muslim standing was accepted across the Islamic world. In the fifteenth century great nomad hosts broke from the Uzbeks and, granted the Kuch-Bash lands by Esan Buqa II and Yunus, grew into the Kazakh Khanate of the Great Horde, pressing the Chagatai remnant south into the Tarim. In the seventeenth century the Dzungars took the country, and the Moghuls merged gradually into the Uyghurs, leaving their name to the land and their tongue to its cities.