Lintan County 临潭县 ·བ་ཙེ་རྫོང་། Bazê
County
Fort in Liushun town
Lintan (pink) within Gannan Prefecture (yellow) within Gansu (grey)
Lintan Location of the seat in Gansu Show map of Gansu Lintan Lintan (China) Show map of China
Coordinates:34°42′N103°40′E / 34.700°N 103.667°E /34.700; 103.667
Country	China
Province	Gansu
Autonomous prefecture	Gannan
County seat	Chengguan (Zhacêr)
Area
• Total	1,557.68 km2 (601.42 sq mi)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	127,387
• Density	81.7800/km2 (211.809/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	747500
Website	www.lintan.gov.cn

Lintan County (Chinese:临潭县,Tibetan:བ་ཙེ་རྫོང་།) is an administrative district inGansu, China. It is one of 58counties of Gansu. It is part of theGannan Prefecture. Its postal code is 747500, and in 1999 its population was 148,722 people.

Tibetans of Taozhou helped crush the Muslim rebels in theDungan revolt (1895–1896) like they did in the 1781Jahriyya revolt. The loyalist Muslims of Táozhōu also fight against the Muslim rebels and Muslim rebel leader Ma Yonglin's entire family was executed.^[2][3]

Muslim sect leaderMa Qixi's MuslimXidaotang repulsed and defeatedBai Lang's bandit forces, who looted the city of Táozhōu but Muslim general Ma Anliang slaughtered Muslim sect leader Ma Qixi and his family after the war.^[4] The bandits were notable for anti-Muslim sentiment, massacring thousands of Muslims at Taozhou. Muslim Khufiyya Sufi general Ma Anliang was only concerned with defending Lanzhou and his own home base in Hezhou (Linxia) in central Gansu where his followers lived and not the rival Xidaotang sect Muslims under Muslim leader Ma Qixi in southern Gansu's minor towns like Taozhou so he let Bai Lang ravage Taozhou and other towns in southern Gansu while passively defending Lanzhou and Hezhou.The North China Herald andReginald Farrer accused Ma Anliang of betraying his fellow Muslims by letting them get slaighterd at Taozhou. Ma Anliang then arrested Ma Qixi after falsely accusing him of striking a deal with Bai Lang and had Ma Qixi and his family slaughtered.^[5]

Lintan County is divided to 11towns, 3townships, and 2ethnic townships.^[6]

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