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Entrance to the Kashgar Sunday Market. The Kashgar Sunday Market (Chinese: 中西亚市场; lit. 'Central–Western Asia market'; Uyghur: يەكشەنبە بازار, lit. 'Sunday bazaar') is the largest market in Central Asia and an important part of the city's local economy. It is held every Sunday and boasts an attendance of a hundred ...
As of 1999, 89.37% of the population of Kashgar (Kasi) Prefecture was Uyghur and 9.1% of the population was Han Chinese. [34] In 1997, the population of Kashgar Prefecture was 3,145,000 with Uyghurs making up 89.4% of the total. [20] As of 1983–4, Kashgar Prefecture had 6,180 mosques. In the mid-1980's, there were two million Uyghurs in ...
The Afaq Khoja Mausoleum is a mausoleum in Xinjiang, China; it is the holiest Muslim site in the region. It is located some 5 km northeast from the centre of Kashgar, [1] in Haohan Village (浩罕村; Ayziret in Uyghur), [2] which has is also known as Yaghdu. [1]
In 453 Kashgar sent envoys to present tribute (Weishu, ch. 5), and again in 455. An embassy sent during the reign of Wencheng Di (452–466) from the king of Kashgar presented a supposed sacred relic of the Buddha; a dress which was incombustible. In 507 Kashgar, is said to have sent envoys in both the 9th and 10th months (Weishu, ch. 8).
In 1762, the Qing government in Kazuo relocated to Kashgar Gaer City (present-day Kashgar City), situated two miles northwest of the newly established "Leining City". [6] In 1826, Leining City was destroyed. In 1828, a new city was constructed, [1] relocating the Shule government, military, and warehouses to this new city. [7]
Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County [5] [6] [7] (often shortened to Tashkurgan County and officially spelled Taxkorgan) is an autonomous county of Kashgar Prefecture, in western Xinjiang, China. The county seat is Tashkurgan. The county is the only Tajik (Pamiri) autonomous county in China. [1]
In fact, the real Imperial Consort Rong died of illness on 24 May 1788 and was buried at the Eastern Qing Tombs; the legend of the Fragrant Concubine first became closely associated with the Kashgar tomb in the late 19th century, and the connection has since been officially established and endorsed through a proliferation of signs and guided tours.
As it was on the Northern Silk Road, Shule traded mostly through the Yumen Pass [18] and the Pamir Mountains. [19]The capital of the Shule Kingdom, Kashgar, is marked. The Northern Silk Road that passed through Kashgar split off into the northern Tarim Basin route which ran from Kashgar over Aksu, Kucha, Korla, through the Iron Gate Pass, over Karasahr, Jiaohe, Turpan, Gaochang and Kumul to Anxi.