page_title: Taranchi
hierarchical_section_title: Taranchi
caption_attribution_description: English: "The chief Taranchi mosque in Kuldja" (i.e. the main Uyghur mosque in Yining)
context_page_description: Taranchi is a term denoting the Muslim sedentary population living in oases around the Tarim Basin in today's Xinjiang, China, whose native language is Turkic Karluk and whose ancestral heritages include Iranian and Tocharian populations of Tarim and the later Turkic peoples such as the Uyghurs, Karluks, Yaghmas, Chigils, Basmyls and lastly, the Mongolic tribes of the Chagatai Khanate.
context_section_description: Taranchi (simplified Chinese: 塔兰奇; traditional Chinese: 塔蘭奇; pinyin: tǎlánqí) is a term denoting the Muslim sedentary population living in oases around the Tarim Basin in today's Xinjiang, China, whose native language is Turkic Karluk and whose ancestral heritages include Iranian and Tocharian populations of Tarim and the later Turkic peoples such as the Uyghurs, Karluks, Yaghmas, Chigils, Basmyls and lastly, the Mongolic tribes of the Chagatai Khanate.
caption: "The chief Taranchi mosque in Gulja" (now Yining), from Henry Lansdell's 1885 book describing his visit there in 1882
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