Jimsar Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (Sinkiang) China
1211 CE
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…Jimasa (in modern Jimsar County).
Ban Yong, with more than six thousand cavalry from the prefectures of Dunhuang, Zhangye (modern Gansu), and Jiujuan (modern Suzhou), as well as soldiers from Shanshan, Kashgar and Turpan, in the following year, 125, defeats the King of Jimasa and beheads both the king and a Xiongnu envoy, sending their heads to the capital.
He also captures more than eight thousand prisoners and fifty thousand horses and cattle.
Near the end of the reign of Emperor An, Ban Yong presents a report to him on the countries to the west of China, covering all the territory to India as well as to the Roman Empire.
This report forms the basis, with a few later additions, of the 'Chronicle of the Western Regions' in the Hou Hanshu.
The Idiquts, the title of the Kara-Khoja rulers, had ruled independently until the 1120s, when they submitted to the Kara-Khitan Khanate, then continued from 1209 as vassal rulers under the Mongols.
The Uyghur Idiqut ruler, Barchukh, voluntarily submits in 1211 to Genghis Khan and is given his daughter, Altani.