{{Short description|Medieval city of the Siberian Tatars}} [[File:Herberstein-Moscovia-NE.png|thumb|''Tumen'' (Chimgi-Tura) on [[Sigismund von Herberstein]]'s map, published in 1549]] '''Chimgi-Tura'''<ref>{{cite book |last1=Christian |first1=David |title=A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia, Volume II: Inner Eurasia from the Mongol Empire to Today, 1260 - 2000 |date=12 March 2018 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-631-21039-9 |page=62 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqZFDwAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref> or '''Chingi-Tura'''<ref name="Monahan">{{cite book |last1=Monahan |first1=Erika |title=The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia |date=1 April 2016 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-1-5017-0396-6 |page=259 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RyjwCwAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref> ({{langx|sty|Цемкетора}}, {{langx|ru|Чинги-Тура}}) was a [[Middle Ages|medieval]] city in the 12th to 16th centuries located in [[Western Siberia]]. After the Russian conquest, it was refounded as [[Tyumen]].<ref name="Monahan"/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Akiner |first1=Shirin |title=Islamic Peoples Of The Soviet Union |date=5 September 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-14266-6 |page=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LUe0AAAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref>
== Name == The word “tura” (тора/tora) in [[Siberian Tatar language|Siberian Tatar]] means “city”, “fortress”.
== History == According to Russian historian Hadi Atlasi, [[Taibuga|Taibugha]] founded the settlement which was then named Chinkidin in honor of [[Genghis Khan]]. The settlement later evolved into Chimgi-Tura.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bukharaev |first=Ravil |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vIy3AwAAQBAJ |title=Islam in Russia: The Four Seasons |date=2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-80793-0 |pages=252 |language=en}}</ref>
It was a capital of the [[Khanate of Sibir]] until the early 16th century, when its ruler Khan Muhammad decided not to remain at Chimgi-Tura, and chose a new capital named [[Qashliq]] located on the [[Irtysh]].<ref name=Sib_hist>{{cite book|last1=Forsyth|first1=James|title=A History of Peoples of Siberia: Russia's North Asian Colony, 1581-1990|date=1994|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=0521477719|pages=25–26|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nzhq85nPrdsC&pg=PA25|accessdate=December 11, 2015}}</ref>
After the [[Cossack]] [[ataman]] [[Yermak Timofeyevich]] conquered the Siberian Khanate in the 1580s, the city of Chimgi-Tura was abandoned or burned. In 1586, the Russian fort [[Tyumen]] was built nearby. Modern Tyumen, one of the centres of the Russian oil industry, covers the site where Chimgi-Tura used to stand.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Longworth |first1=Philip |title=The Cossacks |date=1970 |publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston |isbn=978-0-03-081855-4 |page=55 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XXoiAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref>
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[[Category:Geography of Tyumen Oblast]] [[Category:Former cities in Russia]] [[Category:Khanate of Sibir]] [[Category:Cultural heritage monuments in Tyumen Oblast]] [[Category:Populated places in the Golden Horde]] [[Category:Siberian Tatars]]