Yining

Yining, also called Ghulja and formerly Ningyuan is a county-degree city in northwestern Xinjiang, People's Republic of China, and the seat of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. Historically, Yining is the successor to the ruined metropolis of Almaliq in neighbouring Huocheng County. From 13-15th century it became underneath the control of Chagatai Khanate known as Mughulistan empire with its capital Almaligh, Turpan, Tashkent, Yarkent and Kashgar. Another Mongul empire the Zunghar Khanate mounted around Ili place. You can come here and explore this place.

In the 19th and early 20th century, the phrase Kuldja or Ghulja was frequently used in Russia and in the West as the name for the entire Chinese a part of the Ili River basin in addition to for its two major towns. The utilization of 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica is fairly function: it defines Kulja as a "territory in north-west China" bounded by way of the Russian border and the mountains that surround the Ili basin, and it talks about two essential cities of the place: The castle of Ningyuan became constructed in 1762 to house new settlers from southern Xinjing. The forts of Huining and Xichun built later in 1765 and 1780 were additionally located in the current Yining City.