Kuldja

Kuldja

China
Chinese (Pinyin)  Yining  or (Wade-Giles romanization)  I-ning , also spelled  Kulja 

      city, western Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang (Sinkiang, Uygur Autonomous Region of), China. It is the chief city, agricultural market, and commercial centre of the Ili River valley, which is a principal route from the Xinjiang region into Central Asia. The valley is far wetter than any other part of Xinjiang and has rich grazing land. Kuldja has been a strategic centre since early times, being known to the Tang dynasty (618–907) by the name Gongyue and to the Mongols as Almarikh, under which name it became the capital of the 13th-century Mongol conqueror Chagatai Khan (Chagatai). It first came under direct Chinese control in 1755–57, during the wars with the Dzungars. The Chinese subsequently established several forts near the Ili (Yili) River (Ili River). In the 1870s the area figured in a prolonged border dispute between China and Russia.

      Kuldja is a centre for textile manufacturing, food processing, and leather production. The valley is largely under cultivation, though the uplands still support the herding of sheep, cattle, and horses. The population is mostly Kazakh, Uighur, Han, and Hui, but around Kuldja there are a large settlement of Sibo (Tungusic) people and some Mongols. Highways connect it to other major cities in the region and to Kazakhstan. Pop. (2002 est.) 258,640.

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