Yarkand
Britishnoun
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That same year, according to a Chinese news report cited by Horizon, Xinjiang’s Yarkand County signed a “labor export cooperation framework agreement” with a subsidiary named East Hope Group Xinjiang Aluminum Company.
From New York Times ● Jan. 8, 2021
Shache, also known as Yarkand, is mostly populated by Uighurs, a Turkic ethnic minority.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2014
Tourists who were in the area described military checkpoints on roads leading in and out of Yarkand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2014
On from Kashgar, the route led 500 miles to Kargalik, through the walled, rug-making, Moslem town of Yarkand.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the meanwhile fresh disturbances were breaking out in Yarkand, and thither he proceeded in the later months of 1865 to quell them, taking Buzurg Khan with him.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Demetrius Charles Boulger
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