 The city of Sayram was taken by the Ming of the Kokand Khanate in 1810.The local Qazaq population, and possibly the local sedentary population, revolted against Kokand control in 1820-1.There is little mention of Sayram in regional histories until its fall to the Russians in 1864, by which time the nearby city of Chimkent had already begun to eclipse Sayram in local importance.