UIGHURISTAN: Hoja Niyaz Haji, 1933-1934, AE 10 cash (6.97g), Kashgar, AH1352, Y-D38.2, right flag with partial fringe, discoloration spot on obverse, F-VF. The Islamic Republic of Eastern Turkestan, also known as the Republic of Uighurstan, was a short-lived breakaway would-be Islamic republic founded in 1933. It was centered in the city of Kashgar, Xinjiang.