Charchan

English Proper noun en Qarqan. en https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184786/page/n496 1912 Ruins of Desert Cathay Personal Narrative of Exploration in Central Asia and Westernmost China w:Aurel Stein 323 Hsüan-tsang, following the same route more than a century later, mentions in a position exactly corresponding to Charchan “the old kingdom of Chê-mo-tʻo-na which is the territory of Chü-mo.” He saw there the walls of an old town still standing, but there were no longer any inhabitants. Yet when Chinese rule had been re-established soon after his passage, Charchan or Chü-mo figures once more in the Tʻang dynasty’s Annals as a place duly garrisoned. In Marco Polo’s description of the ‘Province of Charchan,’ fully verified on other points, we read of “numerous towns and villages, and the chief city of the Kingdom bears its name, Charchan.” en https://archive.org/details/china00pete/page/307 1997 China the Silk Routes Peter Neville-Hadley w:Cadogan Guides w:Globe Pequot Press 307 The flights from Charchan are on an 18-seat Twin Otter, which flies to Korla and on to Ürümqi on Mon, Wed, Fri, and Sun mornings. en https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781118094198/page/329 2012 Frommer's China w:Frommer's 5th w:Hoboken John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 329 These buses stop at the oasis towns of Keriya (Yutian; 177km/110 miles; 3 hr.; ¥25), Niya (Minfeng; 294km/182 miles; 5 hr.; ¥55), and Charchan (Qiemo; 603km/374 miles; 8-10 hr.; ¥105-¥147).