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Map including Karghalik (CIA, 1950)

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Borrowed from Uyghur قاغىلىق (qaghiliq).

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Karghalik

  1. Alternative form of Kargilik
    • 1893, Henry Lansdell, Chinese Central Asia[1], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, & Company, →OCLC, page 143:
      After a march of 24 miles in eight hours from Posgam, we reached Karghalik, a town of 1,000 families, according to Forsyth, but according to a later traveller 3,000, and at an elevation of 4,370 feet above the sea.
    • 1923, Aurel Stein, Memoir on Maps of Chinese Turkistan and Kansu from the Surveys Made during Sir Aurel Stein's Explorations[2], Dehra Dun: Trigonometrical Survey Office, page 43:
      In the south, the border of the Taklamakān lies along the nothern ends of the oases, mostly small, which line at intervals the foot of the K'un-lun glacis from Karghalik to Niya (Sheets Nos. 6, 9, 14, 19).
    • 1926, C. P. Skrine, Chinese Central Asia[3], Methuen Publishing, →OCLC, page 109:
      Posgam is a new district which has been carved out of the unwieldy Karghalik charge and placed under a Magistrate of the third class.
    • [1986, Monika Gronke, “The Arabic Yārkand Documents”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies[4], 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.]