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The English name Kashgar is derived from the Russian name (Кашгар), which itself is derived from the Persian name Kâšğar (کاشغر). [13] H. W. Bailey (1899–1996), an English scholar who specialised in the Iranian languages, proposed that Kâš may have been the indigenous name of the city, with the Eastern Iranian suffix - ğar (lit.
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).
Yettishar [a] (Chagatai: یته شهر; Uyghur: يەتتەشەھەر; lit. ' Seven Cities' or 'Heptapolis '), also known as Kashgaria [4] or the Kashgar Emirate, [5] was a Turkic state in Xinjiang that existed from 1864 to 1877, during the Dungan Revolt against the Qing dynasty.
Sir George Macartney should not be confused with his kinsman George Macartney, an earlier British statesman. Sir George Macartney & Chinese Officials, Kashgar, 1915. Sir George Macartney KCIE [1] (Chinese: 馬繼業; 19 January 1867 –19 May 1945) was the British consul-general in Kashgar at the end of the 19th century.
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Burhan ad-Din, a Khoja of the White Mountain faction, was the grandfather of Jahangir. [4] Before rebellion broke out in May 1826 and during a fortuitously timed earthquake that destroyed most towns in the Ferghana Valley, Jahangir Khoja managed to flee to Kashgar from Kokand, where he had been held in prison in accordance with a secret agreement concluded between the Khanate of Kokand and ...
The Battle of Kashgar (Chinese: 喀什戰役) was a military confrontation that took place in 1934 during the Xinjiang Wars.Turkic Muslim Uyghur and Kirghiz fighters under Emir Abdullah Bughra and other Turkic separatists began four separate attacks over a six-day period on Hui and Han Chinese soldiers led by Gen. Ma Zhancang, trapping them inside Kashgar.