Meaning of Yarkand | Babel Free

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A river in China, upon which the city of Yarkant is located. The upper part of this river is known as Raskam.

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“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*.”

“Where was the band heading? Not for India—probably for Yarkand; possibly for some place still farther east. It was therefore necessary for Captain Blacker to turn south-east up the Raskam River, and plunge into the wild tangle of the Karakoram mountains.”

“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.”

“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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