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English: Map of the Ili area as of ca. 1809. It is "upside down", that is the south is on top, and the west on the right. The 9 double-squares correspond to the 9 fortified towns that existed there since the 1760s, as per en:Ili_Kazakh_Autonomous_Prefecture#Qing_Dynasty; from left to right (i.e., east to west):
  • 宁远城 (Ningyuan Cheng = "Old Kulja"; it's a 回城, i.e. a Muslim (Taranchi, Uyghur) town
  • 熙春城 (Xichun Cheng; it's a Lüying ( 綠營). i.e. en:Green Standard Army town
  • Huining Cheng 惠宁城, a town for Manchu troops
  • Huiyuan Cheng 惠远城, a town for Manchu troops
  • Suiding Cheng 绥定城, Green Standard Army
  • Guangren Cheng 广仁城, "left camp"
  • Taleqi Cheng 塔勒奇城, Green Standard Army
  • Zhande Cheng 瞻德城, "right camp"
  • Gongchen Cheng 拱宸城, Green Standard Army (on the east side of Horgos River, 霍儿果斯河)

East of Ningyuan, one can see a few 回庄 (Hui zhuang, i.e. "Muslim (Taranchi) villages"). Around Manchu and Green Standard towns, one can see a number 旗屯 (qi tun, Banner farms; the were worked by Solons, Chahars, and Xibe, according to Millward) and 绿营屯 (lü ying tun, Green standard farms), as well as 屯所 (tun suo; yet another kind of settler's farms/villages?). Xibo Bannermen (锡伯八旗, Xibo Ba Qi) are shown stationed across the Ili River from Huiyuan.

Kazakhs (哈萨克, Hasake), are shown along the northern and western edge of the map; Kyrgyz ("Buruts", 布鲁特, Bulute), further south along the western edge. Lake Sairam (塞里木, Sailimu), is found beyond the Borohoro mountains near the NW corner.
Русский: Илийский край ок. 1809 г
中文:清嘉慶十六年(1809年)的伊犁地區九城地圖。地圖以南為上。中央最大者為惠遠城,為伊犁將軍駐地。另外八城為惠寧城(今伊寧市)、塔勒奇城、綏定城(今霍城縣水定鎮)、寧遠城、熙春城、廣仁城、瞻德城、拱宸城,均建於乾隆年間。由八旗滿洲、八旗蒙古(察哈爾、厄魯特)、綠營(漢族)、索倫營(鄂溫克族、達斡爾族)、錫伯營(錫伯族)、回營(維吾爾族)駐防。
Date First published 1809
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English: Wang Tingkai and Qi Yunshi, Xichui zongtong shilue (General affairs of the western borders). Song-yun (general editor), 1809. Reprinted elsewhere since; this scan is from Millward, James A. (2007), Eurasian crossroads: a history of Xinjiang, Columbia University Press, ISBN 0231139241, Map 2 on p. 78
中文:汪廷楷撰、祁韻士補,《西陲總統事略》。
Author Wang Tingkai and Qi Yunshi / 汪廷楷、祁韻士
Other versions Another, more general map from the same authors can be found at http://www.thenewdominion.net/1082/eighteenth-century-map-of-xinjiang/

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