Battle of Aksu | |||||||
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Part of the Kumul Rebellion | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Republic of China 36th Division (National Revolutionary Army) | First East Turkestan Republic | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Ma Zhancang (nominal commander of all Chinese Muslim forces of southern Xinjiang) | Isma'il Beg | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
Several hundred Chinese muslim troops | Several hundred Turkic muslim Uighur fighters |
The Battle of Aksu (May 31, 1933) was a minor battle in which Chinese Muslim troops were driven from the Aksu oases of Xinjiang by rebelling Uighurs.[1] Isma'il Beg, a Uighur, became the rebel Tao-yin of Aksu.[2]
References[]
- ↑ Andrew D. W. Forbes (1986). Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949. Cambridge, England: CUP Archive. p. 89. ISBN 0-521-25514-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=IAs9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA84&dq=committee+for+national+revolution+sabit&hl=en&ei=16cjTNK8EsKAlAf37K2aAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=uighurs%20expelled%20chinese%20muslim%20aksu&f=false. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
- ↑ Andrew D. W. Forbes (1986). Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949. Cambridge, England: CUP Archive. p. 241. ISBN 0-521-25514-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=IAs9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA144&dq=pai+tzu-li&hl=en&ei=bDg1TJPwA8T6lwfG0bnVBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=beg%20aksu%20rebel%20tao-yin%20oasis&f=false. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
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