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Raskam
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English
Alternative forms
en Raskem
Proper noun
en river c/China, the upper part of Yarkand.
en 1923 John Buchan John Buchan On the Roof of the World A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys https://archive.org/details/bookofescapeshur00buch/ w:Houghton Mifflin Company 2384653 297 https://archive.org/details/bookofescapeshur00buch/page/297/ Where was the band heading? Not for India—probably for Yarkand; possibly for some place still farther east. It was therefore necessary for Captain Blacker to turn south-east up the Raskam River, and plunge into the wild tangle of the Karakoram mountains.
en 1964 w:Alastair Lamb Hunza, the Pamirs, and Aksai Chin in 1912 The China-India Border https://archive.org/details/chinaindiaborder0000unse/ w:Oxford University Press 226153454 98 https://archive.org/details/chinaindiaborder0000unse/page/98/ Similarly, on the upper valleys of the Raskam river, a major tributary of the Yarkand river in Sinkiang, the Mir possessed certain rights of cultivation which he valued as this was the only direction in which he could expand his territory to accommodate any population increase: to the south he was effectively hemmed in by other states.
Translations
Russian: ru Раскемдарья f