Yupogha

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English[edit]

Map including YÜEH-P'U-HU (YUPOGHA) (AMS, 1966)

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Yupogha

  1. Alternative form of Yopurga
    • 1926, C. P. Skrine, Chinese Central Asia[1], Methuen Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 121:
      Sending our baggage-ponies and all our retinue except the indispensable Hafiz and Sangi Khan ahead the day before, we left Kashgar on 21st March and reached Yupogha, 51 miles east-south-east, the same evening. Our way at first led through a flat country of trees and reedy canals and old farms on the banks of quiet rivers; but the second day the cultivation became gradually more sparse and the country dried as we approached the Takla Makan. That night we slept at a thriving little market-village called Tarim Bazar, where there the much-frequented shrine of one of Kashgar's many lady-saints, Bu Mariam.

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