LOCALISATION OF USUN'S ORIGINAL HABITAT PLACE
(DATA FROM CHINESE HISTORICAL SOURCES AND LITERATURE)
22.03.2024
International Scientific Journal "Science and Innovation". Series C. Volume 3 Issue 3
Abstract. The given article is written based on the original Chinese historical sources and scientific literature. The work is devoted to the study of one of the debatable and poorly studied questions related to the issue of localizing the place of the original habitat of the Usuns, which formed one of the groups of the ancient population of Central Asia. The results of studying the data of ancient Chinese sources and the works of historians of the PRC demonstrated that initially the Usun lived in the valleys of the central part of the Eastern section of Tangritag (Tien shan).
Keywords: questions, Usun, Chinese historical sources, Central Asia, Tangritag, Tien-shan, (Tien-Shan), Dunhuang, Qilian, Bogda-shan, Bai-shan, localization, discussion, clarification.
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