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A Central Asian city of the Ili region, major settlement of eastern Turkestan under Mongol rule. It became an important urban and commercial center within the Chaghatayid world. In the context of Syriac Christianity, Almaliq is known from Christian inscriptions and broader Church of the East activity in Central Asia, showing that the ecclesiastical and mercantile networks tied to China extended well beyond the formal borders of the Chinese state.6

Names

  • Almalīq1
  • Almaliq2, 3

Place Type

settlement

Location

  • Coordinates (preferred):
    • Lat. 44.2400000000° Long. 80.5330555556°2
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  • 1 David Wilmshurst, The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913, CSCO 582, Subs. 104 (Louvain: Peeters, 2000), p: 345. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record
  • 2 Ian Mladjov, Diachronic Maps of Syriac Cultures and Their Geographic Contexts, in The Syriac World, ed. Daniel King and David A. Michelson (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), xxvii–xxxiii, map 1–14, map: 10, 11. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 3 William L. Potter and David A. Michelson, Index of Maps, in The Syriac World, ed. Daniel King (London-New York: Routledge, 2018), p: 824. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Worldcat Bibliographic record
  • 4 p: 625-652, p: 625-652.
  • 5 p: 583-624, p: 583-624.
  • 6 Ruji Niu, Nestorian Inscriptions from China (13th–14th Centuries), in Jingjiao: The Church of the East in China and Central Asia, ed. Roman Malek and Peter L. Hofrichter, Collectanea Serica (Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica, 2006), 209–42, p: 211-213. Link to Syriaca.org web application Bibliographic Record.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Almalīq” last modified April 21, 2026, http://syriaca.org/place/796.

Bibliography:

Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Almalīq.”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2026. Entry published April 21, 2026. http://syriaca.org/place/796.

About this Entry

Entry Title: Almalīq

Additional Credit:

  • Abstract added by Louis Wu
  • Data merging for Syriac World maps data by William L. Potter
  • Syriac World maps edited by David A. Michelson
  • Syriac World maps data revised by William L. Potter
  • Syriac World maps cartography by Ian Mladjov
  • Connection to the Syriac World identified by Hidemi Takahashi
  • Connection to the Syriac World identified by Mark Dickens
  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by Daniel L. Schwartz
  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by William L. Potter
  • Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by David A. Michelson
  • Wilmshurst index information entry by Anthony Davis
  • Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson

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