Qashliq
Qashliq,IskerorSibir(Siberian Tatar:Iskәr-tora) was amedieval(14th–16th century)Siberian Tatarfortress, in the 16th century the capital of theKhanate of Sibir,located on the right bank of theIrtysh Riverat its confluence with theSibirkarivulet,some 17 km from the modern city ofTobolsk. The fortress is first mentioned in Russian sources of the 14th century.[2]
The period of the most development was in the first half of the 16th century. In 1582 the troops ofCossackatamanYermakseized and ruined Qashliq. The ruined city was retaken by the Siberian Tatars in 1584 only to be lost forever in 1586. The nearby city ofTobolskwas founded in 1587.
Sources differ on the exact location of the fortress. Most give the distance upriver from Tobolsk as 17 or 18 km, orversts,or ten to eleven miles, but others give 23 km. Sources of the early 19th century claim that the ruins of the fortress could still be made out with difficulty.[3] The modern village ofSibiryak(поселокСибиряк) is located close to the site.
58°08′57.1″N68°31′10.2″E/ 58.149194°N 68.519500°E
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[edit]- ^Shown about four degrees of longitude due east ofPerm.Mercator is also mistaken about hydrology, placing Perm in the Ob basin and depicting the Irtysh as flowing southward. He is using aprime meridianat about25° W,so that Sibir ends up at close to 100° E.
- ^Istoriia Sibiri s drevneishikh vremem do nashikh dnei,Leningrad, 1968, cited afterThe Great Soviet Encyclopedia,3rd Edition (1970–1979).
- ^e.g. J. Bell,A system of geography, popular and scientific,1832,p. 70. T. Curtis,The London encyclopedia,1829,p. 288
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