Mangalai

Mangalai, or Mangalai Suyah, was a kingdom of the Tarim oases centered on Aksu. Chagatai granted the land to the Dughlat lord Urtubu, and it formed part of the Chagatai Khanate in the early fourteenth century.

As khanal power waned, the Dughlat amirs became kingmakers: in 1347 Bulaji raised Tughlugh Timur to the khanship of Moghulistan. Aksu later passed between the khans and Dughlat princes. Sultan Said Khan’s victory in 1514 brought the oases into the Yarkent Khanate, which the Dzungars overran in 1680.