Lo-p'u

English thumb|Map of the region including Lop (Lo-p'u) (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1983) Etymology From the en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of the en cmn 洛浦 Lo⁴-pʻu³. Proper noun 1 1 en Luopu (Lop) en 1970 1964 Reinhard G. Hubel The carpets of East Turkestan Katherine Watson The Book of Carpets https://archive.org/details/bookofcarpets00hube/ West Germany w:Praeger Publishers 71-107152 238186 270 https://archive.org/details/bookofcarpets00hube/page/270/ Chinese sources of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries refer to carpet production in east Turkestan with centres at Khotan, Yü Tien, Lo-p'u and Pi-shan, with an annual capacity of about 5,000 carpets for export to Andiyan/Kokand (about eighty per cent), British India and Afghanistan (H. Bidder: Teppiche aus Ost-Turkestan). The oases on the southern border of the Tarim basin - less subject to unrest through political events and migrations - were able to lead a relatively undisturbed and independent life and formed a focus round which the development of art and craft could crystallise. en https://archive.org/details/newencyclopaedia30chic/ 1974 0-85229-290-2 Khotan w:Encyclopædia Britannica V 793 The oasis of Khotan, the largest of these, includes Mo-yü (Kara Kash), to the northwest, and Lo-p'u, to the east. en Anagrams en lopu Loup Lupo loup