Editing Turpan (section)

==Names{{anchor|Etymology|Toponomy|Geonyms}}==
Historically, many settlements in the [[Tarim Basin]], being situated between Chinese, Turkic, Mongolian, and Persian language users, have a number of cognate names. Turpan or Turfan is one such example. The original name of the city is unknown. The form Turfan, while older than Turpan, was not used until the middle of the 2nd millennium CE and its use became widespread only in the post-Mongol period.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=foS-y-ShWJ0C&pg=PA121 |title=Inner Asia |author= Denis Sinor |page=121 |publisher=RoutledgeCurzon |isbn=978-0-7007-0896-3 |year=1997 }}</ref>