Tashkurgan

English

Welcome to Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County

Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur تاشقۇرغان (tashqurghan).

Proper noun

Tashkurgan

1. Alternative form of Taxkorgan
   • 1876, T. E. Gordon, The Roof of the World: Being the Narrative of a Journey over the High Plateau of Tibet to the Russian Frontier and the Oxus Sources on Pamir‎^[1], Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, page 119:

     We halted for two days at Tashkurgan, to make arrangements for our journey onwards to Wakhan. The winter was unusually late and severe, and we were warned to expect considerable difficulty on the way over the Little Pamir from deep snow and intensely cold winds.

   • 1900, Ralph P. Cobbold, Innermost Asia: Travel & Sport in the Pamirs‎^[2], London: William Heinemann, page 50:

     At this point Deasy and I parted company, he proceeding to the Raskam daria, where he proposed to do some surveying en route to Yarkand, while I proceeded towards Tashkurgan, the principal settlement in Sarikol, where the Munshi Slier Mahomed Sher, whom the Indian Government have appointed to look after the Kashgar post and to assist British subjects generally, received me most hospitably. There are a hundred Chinese mounted troops stationed at the old fort at Tashkurgan.

   • 1937, Ella K. Maillart, Forbidden Journey: From Peking to Kashmir‎^[3], William Heinemann Ltd, →OCLC, page 274:

     We stayed in the little house of the aksakal, an Indian who had been resident in Tashkurgan for thirty years. According to him, the Turki soldiers who garrisoned the region were robbers. The people preferred their Chinese predecessors.

   • 2012, Simon Foster, Candice Lee, Jen Lin-Liu, Beth Reiber, Tini Tran, Lee Wing-sze, Christopher D. Winnan, Frommer's China (Frommer's)‎^[4], 5th edition, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 4:

     Karakul Lake (Xinjiang): On the highway between Kashgar and Tashkurgan lies a pristine lake at an altitude of nearly 4,000m (13,120 ft.), surrounded by stark, jagged mountains. Come here for some peace and quiet and a change of scenery from the dusty Uighur towns along the Silk Road.

   • 2013 November 15, Andrew Jacobs, “Taking the High Road”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-11-15, Travel‎^[6]:

     Over the course of a leisurely three-day expedition from Kashgar to Tashkurgan in late summer, our vehicle was forced to navigate at least a half-dozen recent landslides that helped explain why the word Karakoram, which means “black rock” in Turkish, strikes fear into the hearts of local travelers.

Translations

Taxkorgan — see Taxkorgan