Qanbalik

Changbalik was an Uyghur town on the northern side of the Tianshan, known to Chinese writers as Changbali or Changbala. In the early thirteenth century the Daoist master Qiu Chuji passed through on his journey west to meet Chinggis Khan. His account describes a welcome by the local Uyghur ruler and mentions Buddhist monks. The town stood among the settlements and cultivated oases along the northern approaches to the Tianshan.