{{Short description|Uyghur military leader (1886–1933)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Timur Beg | native_name = تیمور بیگ | native_name_lang = ug | image = Timur Beg (crop).jpg | image_size = | caption = | order = Shah | term_start = 1933 | term_end = 1933 | birth_date = 1886 | birth_place = Kucha, Qing Dynasty | death_date = 9 August 1933 (aged 46–47) | death_place = Kashgar, Republic of China | spouse = | party = {{flagicon image|Flag of the First East Turkestan Republic.svg}} Young Kashgar Party }}
'''Timur Beg''' ({{langx|ug|تیمور بیگ}}), also known as '''Timur Sijan''' (division general), was a Uyghur rebel military leader in Xinjiang in 1933. He was involved in the 1933 Battle of Kashgar and participated before in Turpan Rebellion (1932). He associated with the Turkic nationalist Young Kashgar Party and appointed himself as "Timur Shah".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IAs9AAAAIAAJ&q=temur+shah|title=Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949|author=Andrew D. W. Forbes|year=1986|publisher=CUP Archive|location=Cambridge, England|isbn=0-521-25514-7|page=83|access-date=2010-06-28}}</ref> He and other Uyghurs like the Bughra brothers wanted to secede from China. In August 1933 his troops were attacked by the Chinese Muslim 36th Division of the National Revolutionary Army under General Ma Zhancang. Timur was shot and killed in Kashgar.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tfWq65DlGxkC&q=timur+beg+idgah&pg=PA77|title=Xinjiang: China's Muslim borderland|author=S. Frederick Starr|year=2004|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=0-7656-1318-2|page=77|access-date=2010-06-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IAs9AAAAIAAJ&q=temur+head+was+cut+off+spike+|title=Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: a political history of Republican Sinkiang 1911-1949|author=Andrew D. W. Forbes|year=1986|publisher=CUP Archive|location=Cambridge, England|isbn=0-521-25514-7|page=93|access-date=2010-06-28}}</ref>
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== External links == * [http://oxuscom.com/sovinxj.htm The Soviets in Xinjiang (1911–1949) by Mark Dickens]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beg, Timur}} Category:East Turkestan independence activists Category:1933 deaths Category:1886 births Category:People executed for treason against China Category:People executed by the Republic of China (1912–1949) by decapitation Category:Executed people from Xinjiang Category:Young Kashgar Party politicians Category:Executed Chinese people Category:Republic of China politicians from Xinjiang Category:People from Aksu Prefecture Category:Qing dynasty Muslims Category:Kumul Rebellion