Posgam

English thumb|Map including TSE-P'U (POSGAM) (Army Map Service AMS, 1966) Pronunciation pōsgämʹ Proper noun en Poskam. en 1923 Rasool Galwan Ghulam Rassul Galwan, Aksakal of Leh Servant of Sahibs https://archive.org/details/serventofsahibs0000rass/ Cambridge, England W. Heffer & Sons Ltd. 4866076 43 https://archive.org/details/serventofsahibs0000rass/page/43/ There, late afternoon, got back to Yarkand city. When came there, did not stop; came by the long road. All the time go very fast. I run with them very fast, same a slave. That evening reached to Tegarchi Bazaar. I hope there must camp. Did not camp. From that place was to Posgam about twenty miles. That time was very tired and hungry. I did try to buy some bread. The Hindu not let me buy. The Hindu get very angry with me about the bread. I walking with them very fast again. Got too dark; not see way. en 1926 11 November 1922 C. P. Skrine Yarkand, Khotan and Beyond Chinese Central Asia https://archive.org/details/chinesecentralas0000cpsk/ w:Methuen Publishing 0 389 04151 3 1046356129 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. A Yamen and fine new bazaars are being built of timber by the Chinese to the east of the village. This is only one of several new districts, the formation of which has been necessitated by the increase of population and the spread of cultivation during the last thirty years. en 1947 w:K. P. S. Menon https://archive.org/details/DelhiChungkingAcno6806 Delhi-Chungking: A Travel Diary w:Oxford University Press 912976472 86 https://archive.org/details/DelhiChungkingAcno6806/page/n101 Posgam, Friday, 6 OctoberWe left Yarkand for Posgam at about 10. Today's 17-mile drive from Yarkand to Posgam gave us no indication that we were on the edge of the desert. On both sides of our road were double rows of poplar, interlined by an irrigation channel. And everywhere there were fields of wheat, maize and cotton. en https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apv.172005 1976 Developments of Cotton Cultivation in Sinkiang Chuen-Yan David Lai Pacific Viewpoint 162 In the western part of the Tarim Basin, cotton is grown mainly between the K'a-Shin-ka-erh (Kashgar Darya) and Yeh-erh-ch'iang (Yark and Darya) rivers where the growing season is longer and population denser. The main centres are K'a-shih (Kashgar), Pa-ch'u, Yüeh-p'u-hu, Mai-kai-t'i (Merket), So-ch'e (Yarkand) and Tse-p'u (Posgam). 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. Posgām is the modern Tse-p‘u. on Further reading en 1952 Posgam Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1510 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1510/ 1 en 1994 Lattimore David Table of Names High Tartary https://archive.org/details/hightartary0000latt/ Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1-56836-054-1 94-41881 976634421 373 https://archive.org/details/hightartary0000latt_e9a2/page/373/ Usage in High Tartary / Current Usage in Pinyin Transliteration / Name and Other Common UsagesPosgam / Zepu / Tse-p’u Poskam Anagrams en agmops gompas