Timur Beg Explained

Timur Beg
Native Name:تیمور بیگ
Native Name Lang:ug
Nationality:Uighur
Order:Shah
Term Start:1933
Term End:1933
Birth Date:1886
Birth Place:Kucha, Qing Dynasty
Death Date:9 August 1933 (aged 46–47)
Death Place:Kashgar, Republic of China
Party: Young Kashgar Party

Timur Beg (Uighur; Uyghur: تیمور بیگ), also known as Timur Sijan (division general), was a Uighur rebel military leader in Xinjiang in 1933. He was involved in the 1933 Battle of Kashgar and participated before in Turpan Rebellion (1932). He associated with the Turkic nationalist Young Kashgar Party and appointed himself as "Timur Shah".[1] He and other Uighurs like the Bughra brothers wanted to secede from China. In August 1933 his troops were attacked by the Chinese Muslim 36th Division of the National Revolutionary Army under General Ma Zhancang. Timur was shot and killed in Kashgar.[2] [3]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949. Andrew D. W. Forbes. 1986. CUP Archive. Cambridge, England. 0-521-25514-7. 83. 2010-06-28.
  2. Book: Xinjiang: China's Muslim borderland. S. Frederick Starr. 2004. M.E. Sharpe. 0-7656-1318-2. 77. 2010-06-28.
  3. Book: Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949. Andrew D. W. Forbes. 1986. CUP Archive. Cambridge, England. 0-521-25514-7. 93. 2010-06-28.