Shule County is a county situated in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administrative jurisdiction of the Kashgar Prefecture. It is located to the South of Kashgar City.
In Ancient times, the Shule area was once the home to a Western Region oasis civilisation, the Shule Kingdom. The residents during ancient times belonged to the Indo-European group and they spoke a Proto-Indo-European language in which by the 9th and 10 centuries, gradually evolved to become the language and technology of the present-day ethnic Uyghurs.
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