Karghalik

English

Map including Karghalik (CIA, 1950)

Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur قاغىلىق (qaghiliq).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kärgälĭkʹ

Proper noun

Karghalik

1. Alternative form of Kargilik
   • 1893, Henry Lansdell, Chinese Central Asia‎^[1], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, & Company, →OCLC, 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.

   • 1923, Aurel Stein, Memoir on Maps of Chinese Turkistan and Kansu from the Surveys Made during Sir Aurel Stein's Explorations‎^[2], Dehra Dun: Trigonometrical Survey Office, page 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).

   • 1926, C. P. Skrine, Chinese Central Asia‎^[3], Methuen Publishing, →OCLC, 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.

   • [1986, Monika Gronke, “The Arabic Yārkand Documents”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies‎^[4], volume XLIX, number 3, School of Oriental and African Studies, →ISSN, →OCLC, 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.]