Yengisar County

Template:Short description Template:Template other Yengisar County (formerly transliterated as Yangi Hissar, from Template:Langx), also known as Yingjisha County (Template:Lang-zh), is a county of Kashgar Prefecture in southwest Xinjiang, China. It covers an area of . As of the 2002 census, it had a population of 230,000.

The county seat is the city of Yengisar, a town well known among the local Uyghurs for its handmade knives. The finely-tuned skill of knife-making used to be passed down among generations in Yengisar, but it is slowly dying due to China's strict response to deadly clashes in Xinjiang.

History

In 1499, Ahmad Alaq seized Kashgar and Yengisar from Mirza Abu Bakr Dughlat.

In 1847 and again in 1857, Kashgar and Yengisar were captured.

In 1882, Yengisar Independent Subprefecture () was created.

In 1913, Yengisar Independent Subprefecture became Yengisar County.

The Battle of Yangi Hissar took place here in April 1934, when Ma Zhancang led the Chinese Muslim 36th division to attack the Turkic Muslim Uighur forces at Yangi Hissar, wiping out the entire Uighur force of 500 and killing the Emir Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra.

In 1955, Barin, Jamaterek and Ujme were transferred from Yengisar County to Akto County.

In September 2017, Horigul Nasir, then 21, was jailed for ten years for allegedly promoting the wearing of head scarves. Her brother Yusupjan Nasir was subsequently demoted from his position as an assistant officer of the Saghan township police office to a security guard at the township's Family Planning Department.

Administrative Divisions

Yengisar County included 4 towns, 10 townships, and two other areas:

Name	Simplified Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Uyghur (UEY)	Uyghur Latin (ULY)	Administrative division code	Notes
Towns
Yengisar Town					653123100
Ulugqat Town					653123101	Formerly Ulugqat Township (乌恰乡)
Mangshin Town (Mangxin Town)					653123102	Formerly Mangshin Township ( / )
Saghan Town					653123102	Formerly Mangshin Township ( / )
Townships
Sheher Township (Chengguan Township)					653123200
Qolpan Township					653123201
Lompa Township					653123202
Siyitle Township					653123204
Yengiyer Township					653123206
Qizil Township					653123207
Topluq Township					653123208
Soget Township					653123209
Egus Township					653123211
Egizyer Township	()				653123212

Economy

since 1885Template:Dated maintenance category (articles), there was about 72,700 acres (480,014 mu) of cultivated land in Yengisar.

Demographics

As of 2015, 297,290 of the 302,542 residents of the county were Uyghur, 25,404 were Han Chinese and 851 were from other ethnic groups.

As of 1999, 97.82% of the population of Yengisar (Yingjisha) County was Uyghur and 1.79% of the population was Han Chinese.

Transportation

Yengisar is served by China National Highway 315 and the Southern Xinjiang railway.

Wildlife

The city of Yengisar gave its name to Yangihissar gecko (Cyrtopodion elongatum) lizard species, which occurs throughout eastern Central Asia, including Xinjiang and Gansu Province.[1]Template:Category handler

Notable persons

• Isa Alptekin, Uyghur nationalist
• Erkin Alptekin, 1st President of the World Uyghur Congress
• Arken Imirbaki
• Yulbars Khan

Gallery

• Map of the Karakoram Highway including Yengisar
  Map of the Karakoram Highway including Yengisar
• Map including Yengisar (labeled as YING-CHI-SHA) (ACIC, 1969)
  Map including Yengisar (labeled as YING-CHI-SHA) (ACIC, 1969)
• Map including Yengisar (labeled as Yangihissar) (1917)
  Map including Yengisar (labeled as Yangihissar) (1917)
• Map including Yengisar (labeled as YING-CHI-SHA (YANGI HISSAR)) and surrounding region from the International Map of the World (AMS, 1966)
  Map including Yengisar (labeled as YING-CHI-SHA (YANGI HISSAR)) and surrounding region from the International Map of the World (AMS, 1966)
• From the Operational Navigation Chart; map including Yengisar (Ying-chi-sha) (DMA, 1980)Template:Efn
  From the Operational Navigation Chart; map including Yengisar (Ying-chi-sha) (DMA, 1980)Template:Efn
• Map including Yengisar (Ying-chi-sha) (DMA, 1984)Template:Efn
  Map including Yengisar (Ying-chi-sha) (DMA, 1984)Template:Efn
• Yengisar Knife Factory
  Yengisar Knife Factory
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• File:英吉沙街景 - Streetview of Yengisar County - 2015.04 - panoramio.jpg