Map including Yarkand (CIA, 1950)
Map including SO-CH'E (YARKAND) (USATC, 1971)

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Yarkand

  1. Alternative form of Yarkant
    • 1800, John Pinkerton, Petralogy[1], volume I, White, Cochrane, and Co., page 280:
      Goez, who travelled to Tibet in 1602, in describing Yarkand, the capital of the kingdom of Kasgar, in Little Bucharia, mentions, that a commodity, particularly acceptable in China, was a kind of marble or jasper, found in Kasgar*.
    • [1986, Monika Gronke, “The Arabic Yārkand Documents”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies[2], volume XLIX, number 3, School of Oriental and African Studies, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 491:
      Posgām (in Arabic letters written Būskām) is a large town to the southeast of Yārkand, situated on the trade route coming from Karġalik (today: Yeh-ch‘eng) at a distance of 21 miles from Karġalik. Posgām is the modern Tse-p‘u.]
    • 2009, Christopher I. Beckwith, Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present[3], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 240:
      The Manchu-Chinese replaced the Junghar imperial coinage of East Turkistan with Manchu-Chinese coins they began minting at Yarkand in 1759.

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