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Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · CHN LEFT · KGZ RIGHT

1. 1916

   The 1916 revolt (Urkun)

   A decree conscripting Central Asians for wartime labour triggered a revolt across Russian Turkestan; in the Kyrgyz lands it was suppressed with great violence, and tens of thousands fled toward China, with heavy loss of life. Casualty figures remain estimates.

   War & Rupture · from the Kyrgyzstan chronicle · The Khanate of Kokand and the Russian Conquest · REFS 2 — Kyrgyzstan: Victims Of 1916 'Urkun' Tragedy Commemorated, Kyrgyzstan: A Country Study (in Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan: Country Studies)