Meaning of P'i-shan | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“Now, 2,000 years ago, we are told that from Pʻi-shan you go east to Khoten 380 li (120 miles), and from Pʻi-shan you got north-west to Yarkand exactly the same distance. Hence both ancient and contemporary Pʻi-shan must be the first considerable town north of Shahidula, in the immediate neighbourhood of Sanju.”

“In how far the name of that time was bound to the western mountains is already proved by the observation that the Ts'ung-ling is not mentioned at all in the adjoining mountainous regions to the north and south, viz., first on the line from Wen-su (Uch-Turfan) to the Wu-sun, on Issik-köl. and secondly from P'i-shan (on the Kiliang River to the west of Khoan) viâ Wu-ch'a to North-western India⁵.”

“The Novabad national rural area in the Guma (P'i-shan) county made up of three settlements with a population of 512, of whom 480 are Tadzhiks, 27 Uygurs, and five Kirgiz.”

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