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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 ...
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).
Grand Bazaar Bazaar at night. The Xinjiang International Grand Bazaar (simplified Chinese: 新疆国际大巴扎; traditional Chinese: 新疆國際大巴扎; pinyin: Xīnjiāng Guójì Dàbāzhā; Uyghur: شىنجاڭ خەلقئارا چوڭ بازىرى, romanized: Shinjang Xelq'ara Chong Baziri, Шинҗаң Хелқ'ара Чоң Базири), also known as International Grand Bazaar ...
Night markets are commonly known as Pasar Malam by the locals, which literally means night market, "pasar" being related to "bazaar" in Persian or also the meaning "market" in Malay/Indonesian, and "malam" meaning "night". A pasar malam is a street market in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore that opens in the evening, usually in residential ...
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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.
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.
Tahir Hamut Izgil (born 1969) is a modernist Uyghur poet, filmmaker, and activist. [1] [2] A leader in avant-garde Uyghur poetry in the 1990s, he is known for poems and films strongly influenced by Uyghur life. [3]