Özet:

The Salars are one of the minority peoples of China, and they live mainly at Hsün-hua, south of Sining, in the mountainous district of the Ch'ing-hai Provinee, on the south bank of the Huang-ho (the Yellow River), and some live at Hua-lung north of the Huang-ho and at Ling-hsia (or Ho-chou) in the Kansu Province. In Chinese sources the Salars are firstly reported in the early eighteenth century (in 1707)bu t the Tâ 'rikh-i Rashidi of Mırzâ Haidar Düghlât (compiled in 1547) already mentions of the Ho-chou Salars 2 . According to G. N. POTANIN3 and W. W. ROCKHILL4 , who visited the Salar district to investigate their language and ethnographical features at the end of the ninteenth century, the Ch'ing-hai Salars were reported for the first time as Turkic-speaking Muslims. 

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