Kan-Çou Uighur StateKan            

            
       Uighur people came to the region of Kan-su where some of the people of the same kind resided for nearly 150 years. These Uighur people who arrived in this region settled in the centre of Kan-çou. They had good relationship with China that was mostly based on trade relations and they reinforced this relation with relative ties through the marriages between the daughters of the emperors with the Uighur princes. However, in the beginning of the 10th century, the rebellions against the T'ang dynasty increased a lot. Therefore, the Kan-su Uighur people were disconnected from the Chinese military zone that was centred in Tun-Huang (the place where the famous Bin-Buddha coves were located) that they were dependent.

 

        A renegade general that had established an autonomous "state" in this region in the year of 905 wanted to subdue the Uighur people under the domination of this state that was called as "Altın-dağ kingdom of the Western khans". However, Kan-çou Uighur people had sent an army under the command of the commander named as Tegin. This army besieged Tun-huang and forced the people to deliver the "king" to the Uighur people (911). Upon this event, the western branch of the Uighur people had attained their independence.

 

        Kan-cou and Tun-huang Uighur people could not attain a great military power. Therefore, there is not much information about these people. Since the beginning of the 10th century, K'itan people collected the tribes of Manchuria and Korea around them and came into existence as a pressure element in the north. Kitan people captured some of the sections of China in the period of "5th Dynasty". Finally, they established a dynasty (Liao dynasty, 907-1211) and dominion in the northern China. Then, the Uighur State became submissive to the Kitan domination (after 940) and then, they got under the influence of Tangut people in the years of 1028. The Uighur people were submissive to the tyranny of the Jenghiz Khan Mongolians in the year of 1226. Kan-çou Uighur people constituted the Turkish tribe that was known as "Sari Uygurlar" (Yellow Uighur people) since that period and they still live in the region of the western China.