# Timur Beg

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{{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](/source/Shah)
| term_start       = 1933
| term_end         = 1933
| birth_date       = 1886
| birth_place      = [Kucha](/source/Kucha), [Qing Dynasty](/source/Qing_Dynasty)
| death_date       = 9 August 1933 (aged 46–47)
| death_place      = [Kashgar](/source/Kashgar), [Republic of China](/source/Republic_of_China_(1912%E2%80%931949))
| spouse           = 
| party            = {{flagicon image|Flag of the First East Turkestan Republic.svg}} [Young Kashgar Party](/source/Young_Kashgar_Party) 
}}

'''Timur Beg''' ({{langx|ug|تیمور بیگ}}), also known as '''Timur Sijan''' (division general), was a [Uyghur](/source/Uyghurs) rebel military leader in [Xinjiang](/source/Xinjiang) in 1933. He was involved in the [1933 Battle of Kashgar](/source/Battle_of_Kashgar_(1933)) and participated before in [Turpan](/source/Turpan) Rebellion (1932). He associated with the Turkic nationalist [Young Kashgar Party](/source/Young_Kashgar_Party) and appointed himself as "Timur [Shah](/source/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](/source/Hui_people) [36th Division](/source/36th_Division_(National_Revolutionary_Army)) of the [National Revolutionary Army](/source/National_Revolutionary_Army) under General [Ma Zhancang](/source/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>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://oxuscom.com/sovinxj.htm The Soviets in Xinjiang (1911–1949) by Mark Dickens]

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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

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