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	Yarkand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yarkand was the seat of an ancient Buddhist kingdom on the southern branch of the Silk Road
		Yarkand is strategically located about half way between Kashgar and Khotan, at the junction of a branch road north to Aksu.
		The oasis of Yarkand was undoubtedly known to the Chinese from at least the 2nd century BCE, but the earliest detailed accounts of Yarkand that survive appear in the Hou Hanshu ('History of the Later Han').
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yarkand (3286 words)

	YARKAND - LoveToKnow Article on YARKAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Yarkand is renowned for its leather-ware and saddlery.
		The town of Yarkand, which has a population of about 100,000 (5000 houses in the city, and as many in Yanghishar and the suburbs), is situated on the river of the same name, five days' journey S.E. from Kashgar.
		Yarkand is surrounded by a number of smaller towns, the chief of which areYanghi-hissar, which has about 600 houses, Tashkurgan on the Pamirs, Posgam (1600 houses), Kargalyk, at the junction of the routes leading to Ladakh and Khotan (2000 houses), Sanju (2000), Tagarchi, Kartchum, Besh-taryk (1800) and Guma (3000).
	89.1911encyclopedia.org /Y/YA/YARKAND.htm (2516 words)

	Yarkand: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In geography, an oasis is an isolated area of vegetation in a desert, typically surrounding a spring or similar water source....
		Yarkand (38° 25' N; 77° 16' E.; alt.
		The oasis of Yarkand was undoubtedly known to the Chinese from at least the 2nd century BCE, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/y/ya/yarkand.htm (6218 words)

	Kashgar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Emperor Guangwu 25-57 AD, decided that because the Empire was not yet settled [after a long period of civil war], he had no time for outside affairs, and [therefore] finally refused his consent.
		With the overthrow of Chinese rule in 1865 by Yakub Beg (1820-1877), the manufacturing industries of Kashgar are supposed to have declined.
		Abkah was a powerful ruler, controlling Khotan, Yarkand, Korla, Kucha and Aksu as well as Kashgar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kashgar (4043 words)

	Y4RKAND (Chinese name ... - Online Information article about Y4RKAND (Chinese name ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The settlements of the Yarkand oasis occupy the S.W. corner of E.
		Yarkand is surrounded by a number of smaller towns, the chief of which are—Yanghi-See also:
		Protestant missionaries whose headquarters are at Kashgar maintain a medical mission at Yarkand.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /WIL_YAK/Y4RKAND_Chinese_name_Soche_Fu_.html (1029 words)

	http://depts
		A curious fact concerning this stream is, that in the early part of the spring it becomes so small that one might almost cross it, in some places, by stepping from stone to stone.
		Within the citadel of Yarkand and near to the fort [ark] is a tomb called Abjaji Ata, in which is the bone of a man's thigh, in two pieces.
		Firstly, the Jade-stone, which is found in the rivers of Yarkand and Khotan, and of which not a trace is to be found in any other part of the world.
	www.meshrep.com /Article/khaxkhar.html (5773 words)

	Yarkand - TheBestLinks.com - Chinese language, Pinyin, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, Kashgar, ...
		Yarkand - TheBestLinks.com - Chinese language, Pinyin, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, Kashgar,...
		Yarkand, Chinese language, Pinyin, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, Kashgar...
		Yarkand (modern Chinese name 叶城, pinyin ye cheng, also Chokkuka, possibly also So-kiu) was an ancient Buddhist kingdom located on the branch of the Silk road that ran along the southern edge of the Taklamakan desert in the Tarim basin.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Yarkand.html (149 words)

	Yarkand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		'''Yarkand''' (modern Chinese name 叶城, pinyin: ''Yèchéng'', also '''Chokkuka''', anciently Suoju 莎車, also written Shache and Suoche; {{coor dm3752N7724E}} alt.
		Image:Street scene in Yarkand in the 1870s.jpgthumb360pxStreet scene in Yarkand in the 1870s
		Image:Yarkand Governor's Guard.jpgthumb360pxAndijani Taifurghis of the Yarkand Governor's Guard.
	goc.subdomain.de /Yarkand (3248 words)

	Section 5 – The Kingdom of Xiye 西夜 (modern Karghalik or Yecheng) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The proportion is about the same as a modern census would be likely to reveal between the oasis of Karghalik proper and the Beg-ship comprising Kök-yar, Yül-arik and Ushak-bashi.
		This is of particular interest for, in 1868, Robert Shaw, a British trader based in India, set out on a journey from Ladakh to Yarkand.
		It was at the junction of the route via the Shimshal Valley to Hunza, and another route which led directly north to Kokyar and Karghalik and then either northwest to Yarkand and Kashgar, or southeast to Pishan and Khotan.
	depts.washington.edu /uwch/silkroad/texts/hhshu/notes5.html (2157 words)

	Walking to Eastern Turkestan
		The carpets woven in Eastern Turkestan have been known in the West as Samarkand and in the Orient as Kansu because those towns were the western and eastern depots on the trade routes, becoming the places from which the carpets were marketed.
		In the oasis towns of Kashgar, Yarkand, and Khotan, the two Pathans visited homes of the owners of carpets, in many cases the families of the weavers.
		The carpet in Illustration 1 is typical of those from Yarkand, and the carpet in Illustration 3 was woven in Yarkand.
	www.rugreview.com /orr/145estur.htm (786 words)

	Silken Cities- The Economic Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Yarkand, also called Shache, was an ancient Buddhist kingdom between Pishan and Kashgar on the southern branch of the Silk Road.
		Watered by the Yarkand River which flows north down from the Congling mountains ('Onion Mountains'!)it is half way between Khotan and Kashgar.
		The Great Mosque of Yarkand is said to have been founded as early as the fifteenth century by Uygur vassals ruling the Tarim basin, when the region was hotly contested between the Dughlat and Chaghtai Turks.
	economictimes.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-1149833,prtpage-1.cms (676 words)

	as-Sikka, Journal of The Islamic Coins Group
		The Yarkand Khanate was established in the mid-Ming period, 1514 CE, by the Chaghatai descendant Sa'id Khan.
		The Yarkand Khanate was established in 1514, and destroyed by the Zhungars in 1678, thus having existed for a century and a half in total.
		The third category of Yarkand coinage is rather special, struck in red copper, shaped like the head of a chopstick, cylindrical with a diameter of 10 mm and a thickness of 8-9 mm, and an average weight of 5.3 grams.
	www.islamiccoinsgroup.50g.com /assikka1.htm (5300 words)

	Yarkand (or, Car Can't) - Learning Chinese - BootsnAll Travelogues
		We spent the day in Yarkand, wandering the streets of the old town and taking in the passing donkey carts, women shrouded in veils and vendors screaming out prices from the shaded table of a Uyghur restaurant.
		We had been told that Yarkand is what Kashgar was 10 years ago (or, "down-home Uyghur"), and Yarkand was exactly that.
		It took us four hours to get back to Yarkand, 3 and a half of which were spent messing with ropes and ditches.
	blogs.bootsnall.com /christina/archives/003422.shtml (1173 words)

	<MUTTI-L> Central Asia Caucasus Analyst -- The Economic Motivations of X (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		BACKGROUND: Yarkand, tucked in the southwestern corner of the Taklamakan, is quintessential Xinjiang: the mostly rural, mostly Uighur inhabitants eke out a simple living as cotton farmers.
		Several years ago in Yarkand, three masked, gun-wielding men cornered a group of people and demanded them to recite verses from the Quran.
		Perverse as it seems, the literal interpretation of Qur'an as "recitation" by the Yarkand militiamen demonstrates how vital Islam has become for the independence movement: it drives the fight for a compatible political system, and it magnifies the difference between Muslims and the atheist Han.
	www.mail-archive.com /mutti-l@taklamakan.org/msg01076.html (1203 words)

	Midday Gerbil
		Yarkand is a city on the Silk Road, and is now in the Western most part of China.
		It is not far from Kashmir and several embassies were sent to the semi-independent Amir of Yarkand in the 19th Century.
		The Midday Gerbil (Meriones meridianus) is a gerbil of similar size and appearance to The Mongolian gerbil (M. unguiculatus) that we normally keep as a pet.
	www.gerbils.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /gerbils/midday.htm (959 words)

	Rugs of East Turkestan
		The current classification of these rugs as Khotan, Yarkand, and Kashgar is based primarily on structural characteristics and secondarily on designs.
		Regarding the vase-pomegranate pattern he says it "occurs frequently as a pattern on Khotan carpets." Of the five carpets illustrating this pattern, two are attributed to Kashgar, two to Yarkand, and one to Khotan.
		The most coarsely woven rugs are Khotans; Yarkands are on average more finely woven (because they have two thinner wefts and not three which require less space); and the finest are the Kashgars, even in the non-silk rugs.
	www.rugreview.com /116eturk.htm (5181 words)

	Amazon.com: yarkand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A sketch of the Turki language as spoken in eastern Turkistan (Kashgar and Yarkand) by Robert Shaw (Unknown Binding)
		Lahore to Yarkand: Incidents of the route and natural history of the countries traversed by the expedition of 1870, under T.D. Forsyth by George Henderson (Unknown Binding - 1981)
		Scientific results of the second Yarkand mission: Based upon the collections and notes of the late Ferdinand Stoliczka.
	www.independentcommerce.com /icDirectory/keyword.asp?keyword=yarkand (670 words)

	Kingdom of Khotan Bio @ AlienArtifacts.com (Alien Artifacts) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		During the Yongping period (58-76 CE), in the reign of Emperor Ming, Xiumo Ba, a Khotanese general, rebelled against Suoju (Yarkand), and made himself king of Yutian (in 60 CE).
		56: Xian, the powerful and prosperous king of Yarkand, attacked and annexed Khotan.
		127: The Chinese general Ban Yong attacked and subdued Karashahr; and then Kucha, Kashgar, Khotan, Yarkand, and other kingdoms, seventeen altogether, who all came to submit to China.
	www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Kingdom_of_Khotan (1608 words)

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		Yarkand is an ancient city with a history of nearly 3000 years.
		An important stop on the ancient Silk Route, Yarkand is an oasis of 8283 square kilomtres is famous for its silk industry.
		Khotam, 200 miles from Yarkand, famous for its jade, silk and rugs, has been an center of Buddhist learning, culture and civilization.
	www.diatravel.com /doc96u.htm (1174 words)

	Yarkand Cemetery
		Next to it there are the tombs of the khans of Yarkand, several decorated coffins out in the open and pavilions in a mix of Mogul and Central Asian Turkic styles.
		At last we reached the end of the town and continued to walk the wide but unpaved road through a dense alley into the cotton and rice fields of the oasis.
		Water for irrigation is supplied from the Yarkand river by system of irrigation channels.
	eos.photonik.tuwien.ac.at /china/xinjiang/node37.html (403 words)

	Brief History of the Barrow built ship Yarkand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Yarkand was launched on the 29th January 1877 for Edward Bates and Sons, Liverpool.
		The Yarkand was bought for about £ 3700 in July 1897 by Capt. O.W. Lundén and partners, of Rauma, Finland.
		In 1932 the Yarkand was still operating as a barge, owned by the Durham Navigation Company, of New York.
	www.mightyseas.co.uk /marhist/furness/barrow_sb_co/yarkand.htm (211 words)

	Musing Under The Tenement Palm » Blog Archive » XJ Culture: Abakh Hoja and Xiangfei (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Yarkand Khanate was surrounded by competing forces - the Tibetans to the south, the Zhungars to the North and the Qing Dynasty to the east.
		He apparently allied himself with the Zhungars, through the aid of the Tibetans (as described by Mark Zhong as the Khanate was fractured between competing factions.
		Uighurs appear to now consider the alliance with outside forces to have led to the subsequent defeat of the Yarkand Khanate to the Qing armies - and put the responsibility squarely on Abakh.
	silkworms.chinesetriad.org /index.php?p=82 (775 words)

	frontline: dreams of tibet: ascending the roof of the world: the pundits
		At their headquarters in the hill station of Dehra Dun, the cartographers of the Survey of India preferred to ignore the positioning of towns and rivers shown on the old, Chinese-made pictorial maps of Tibet.
		For Yarkand, in the heart of Chinese Central Asia, was chosen as the target for this sensitive mission.
		Mohamed reached Yarkand safely, residing there for six months, all the time taking furtive observations with his secret instruments, and keeping his ears open for any news of Russian activities in the region.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/tibet/ascend/pundits.html (2722 words)

	frontline: dreams of tibet: ascending the roof of the world: nain singh's last exploration
		The deception involved a rather complex scheme in which William Johnson (famous for his visit to Khotan in 1864), now wazir of Ladakh in the service of the maharaja of Kashmir, was to conspire with the headman of the village of Tankse, near the Tibetan border.
		The headman was to collect a number of sheep for the Pundit, giving the impression to the Ladakhis that the sheep were to be used as baggage animals to carry the Pundit's merchandise on the road to Yarkand.
		Nine days later they reached the last village before the Tibetan border, and under cover of darkness the pundit and his companions dressed in the priests' robes which had been tailored secretly for them in Leh.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/tibet/ascend/singh.html (3549 words)

	Claudius Bombarnac, Special Correspondent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It was without the shadow of an accident, and after a particularly fine run, that we entered Yarkand station at four o'clock in the afternoon.
		If Yarkand is not the administrative capital of eastern Turkestan, it is certainly the most important commercial city of the province.
		Fortunately, the Yarkand women are not forbidden to appear in the streets, which are bordered by simple mud huts, as they were at the time of the "dadkwahs," or governors of the province.
	home.att.net /~srschmitt/jverne/claudiusbombarnac/claudius_bombarnac-017.html (1816 words)

	Catalog :: Qur'anic Pages :: Turkista
		This Qur'an is one of the few that can be directly attributed to this populous yet little-known part of the Islamic world.
		According to an inscription written in corrupt Arabic, the manuscript was copied in the city of Yarkand in 1246/1830 by Rahmatullah Ibn Abil-Ghiyath.
		At the time when the Qur'an was copied Yarkand was officially part of the Manchu Empire but was in continual revolt and ferment.
	www.islamicart.com /main/calligraphy/catalog/turkistan.html (251 words)

	Species Profile for Yarkand deer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Federal Register documents that apply to the Yarkand deer.
		USFWS Refuges on which the Yarkand deer is reported.
		The Yarkand deer was first listed on June 25, 1979.
	ecos.fws.gov /species_profile/SpeciesProfile?spcode=A07H (143 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Turkestan
		Yakub, having taken Burzuk's place, subjugated Kashgar, Khotan, Aksu, and the other towns south of the T'ien-shan, thus creating a new empire; his capital was Yarkand, and there he received embassies from England in 1870 and 1873 (Sir Douglas T. Forsyth) and from Russian in 1872 (Col. Baron Kaulbars).
		A new treaty was signed at St. Petersburg, 12 (24) Feb., 1881, and Russia kept but the western part of the contested territory, restoring the pass of Muz-Art and giving up some of the commercial privileges granted by the Livadia Treaty.
		Sin-Kiang includes the following regions: Hami or Qomujl or Pa Shan; the great Gobi Desert or Shamo, the largest portion of Turkestan, the south-west part of it is the Takla-makan Desert; the region of oases (Khotan, Yarkand, Kashgar, Aksu, Uch-Turfan, Yangi-hissar); the Turfan region (Turfan, Karashar); Sungaria (Urumtsi, Kuch'êng); the Ili region (Kulja).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15095a.htm (937 words)

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