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
The clashes took place Sunday night and Monday morning in villages near Yarkand, also known as Shache, a desert oasis near China’s western border with Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
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
Yarkand soon afterwards fell into his possession, and the conquest of Kashgar by the descendant of the Khojas and the triumph of the Aktaghluc party were complete.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Boulger, Demetrius Charles
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