Western Regions

the Western Regions, are regions located to the west of the great Tang, here are 36 kingdoms, known as the "36 kingdoms of the western regions", in the western regions, there are also the protectorates of Qixi and Anxi, the western regions,they are arid and desert lands, dominated by great deserts ...

in the western regions, there is a heterogeneous set of tribes and tribal clans, in conflict and rivalry between them, among these there are:

*Hu Tribe*

*Saka People*

*Gangke Tribe*

*Karluks*

the western regions are a frontier zone, a marginal periphery of the Great Tang empire ...

the western regions are a trading crossroads of the Silk Road ...

under Wang Chong, the Western Lands fell prey to numerous military invasions by the Khaganate Empire, the Arab Empire and the U-Tsang Empire, all military invasions, repulsed by Wang Chong and the Great Tang army...

in the western regions, there are the two largest and most important protectorates of the Great Tang:

*Qixi Protectorate*

*Anxi Protectorate*

each individual Protectorate has its own army, which has an average size of 10,000 soldiers

the armies of the protectorates of Anxi and Qixi, alongside the army of the Great Tang, in the wars against the Arab Empire, the Khaganate Empire and the U-Tsang Empire

the Protectorate of Anxi has four military garrisons which are:

*Suiye Garrison*

*Kucha Garrison*

*Khotan Garrison*

*Shule Garrison*

the western regions, not only repeatedly undergo numerous foreign invasions from the outside, but are devastated by armies and armed bands of Bandits, which have become an endemic problem in the Western Regions ...

the majority of the cities of the western regions are austere, rough and dirty cities, small towns of few inhabitants, other cities of the western regions, are semi-abandoned cities, similar to ghost towns, the largest in the western regions and the ***city of Suiye***, which has many inhabitants and is an important commercial-merchant center ...

in the western regions, there is also the ***city of Talas*** and the ***Cong Mountains***, the most extreme and remote areas of the Great Tang Empire, where Wang Chong fought against the Arab Empire ...

Historically, the first person in the history of the Central Plains to open a path to the Western Regions was Zhang Qian, but true dominance and influence only came several centuries later with Ban Chao! The history of the Central Plains dynasties in the Western Regions was one of constant gain and loss, and even several centuries of lost contact. Countless Protector-Generals of the Western Regions had been dispatched to handle the region, but if one looked back, the first Protector-General of the Western Regions was that man of the Great Han Dynasty more than one thousand years ago who cast aside his scholar’s brush to take up the sword, Ban Chao2.

‘Although the Western Regions is far, it still belongs to the culture of the Central Plains. The Son of Heaven finds it difficult to attend to, so this subject of the Son of Heaven will patrol the lands in his place! To stand sentinel forever at the gate of the empire!!!’ (Ch.869)

The Western Regions is home to the ruins of many ancient kingdoms that left behind vast treasuries, and there are many legends about treasure maps. Even now, quite a few tribes are seeking out these treasures. (Ch.886)

***Kingdoms:***

*Beilu Kingdom*

*Kokand Kingdom*

*Kanjut Kingdom*

*Dayuan Kingdom*

*Kangju Kingdom*