Altishahr is a historical Uyghur name for the Tarim Basin region used in the 18th and 19th centuries. The term literally means the `six cities` in Turkic languages and refers to oasis towns along the rim of the Tarim, in what is now southern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. ==Etymology== Altishahr is derived from the Turkic words alti.....