Karghalik

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“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.”

“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).”

“Posgam is a new district which has been carved out of the unwieldy Karghalik charge and placed under a Magistrate of the third class.”

“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.”

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