Chimgi-Tura or Chingi-Tura (Siberian Tatar: Цимкетора, Russian: Чинги-Тура) was a medieval city in the 12th to 16th centuries located in Western Siberia. After the Russian conquest, it was refounded as Tyumen.
== Name == The word “tura” (тора/tora) in Siberian Tatar means “city”, “fortress”.
== History == According to Russian historian Hadi Atlasi, Taibugha founded the settlement which was then named Chinkidin in honor of Genghis Khan. The settlement later evolved into Chimgi-Tura. It was a capital of the Khanate of Sibir until the early 16th century, when its ruler Khan Muhammad decided not to remain at Chimgi-Tura, and chose a new capital named Qashliq located on the Irtysh. After the Cossack ataman Yermak Timofeyevich conquered the Siberian Khanate in the 1580s, the city of Chimgi-Tura was abandoned or burned. In 1586, the Russian fort Tyumen was built nearby. Modern Tyumen, one of the centres of the Russian oil industry, covers the site where Chimgi-Tura used to stand.
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== External links == К этимологии, семантике и истории происхождения средневекового имени г. Тюмени (On the etymology, semantics and history of the origin of the medieval name of the city of Tyumen) (in Russian)