Karghalik

English thumb|Map including Karghalik (CIA, 1950) Etymology Borrowed from en ug قاغىلىق. Pronunciation kärgälĭkʹ Proper noun en Kargilik. en 1893 w:Henry Lansdell Chinese Central Asia https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.29923/ II London Sampson Low, Marston, & Company 4845007 143 https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.29923/page/143/ After a march of 24 miles in eight hours from Posgam, we reached Karghalik, a town of 1,000 families, according to Forsyth, but according to a later traveller 3,000, and at an elevation of 4,370 feet above the sea. en 1923 https://archive.org/details/1923MemoirOnMapsOfChineseTurkistanBySteinS/ Memoir on Maps of Chinese Turkistan and Kansu from the Surveys Made during Sir Aurel Stein's Explorations w:Aurel Stein Trigonometrical Survey Office Dehra Dun 43 In the south, the border of the Taklamakān lies along the nothern ends of the oases, mostly small, which line at intervals the foot of the K'un-lun glacis from Karghalik to Niya (Sheets Nos. 6, 9, 14, 19). en 1926 C. P. Skrine Chinese Central Asia https://archive.org/details/chinesecentralas0000cpsk/ w:Methuen Publishing 493961872 109 https://archive.org/details/chinesecentralas0000cpsk/page/109/ Posgam is a new district which has been carved out of the unwieldy Karghalik charge and placed under a Magistrate of the third class. en 1986 Monika Gronke The Arabic Yārkand Documents Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.05187/page/n488/ w:School of Oriental and African Studies XLIX 3 0041-977X 875827390 491 https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.05187/page/491/ Posgām (in Arabic letters written Būskām) is a large town to the southeast of Yārkand, situated on the trade route coming from Karġalik (today: Yeh-ch‘eng) at a distance of 21 miles from Karġalik. on