Xinjiang
caption: Left: Brown-haired and blue-eyed Indo-Aryan , Indo-Iranian or Central Asian (possibly Tocharian ?) and right: Fair-skinned East Asian ( Han ?, Tibetan ?) Buddhist monks, Bezeklik , Eastern Tarim Basin , 9th–10th centuries CE. [1]
caption: The Tarim Basin in the 3rd century CE.
caption: Westerner on a Bactrian camel , Tang Dynasty
caption: The Battle of Oroi-Jalatu in 1756 between the Chinese and western Mongol armies.
caption: Flag of the First East Turkestan Republic , which was a short-lived attempt at independence of the lands around Kashgar .
caption: The Soviet-backed Second East Turkestan Republic existed in what is now the Ili, Tarbagatay and Altay districts of Xinjiang