Here we are in Kashgar, the city where everything has been sold and bought for centuries! |
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Earlier, 16 Chinese policemen were killed in an attack in the far western city of Kashgar. |
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After the mountain excursions into the lake area of Ysyk-Koel and Song-Koel, this stage reaches Chinese territory at the oasis town of Kashgar. |
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In ten days time we will be in Kashgar where we will stay for a further ten days or thereabouts. |
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He camps today in Kashgar by trying to form young talents in dramatic arts and by savoring his retired time. |
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As an old important stop on the Silk road, the city of Kashgar still sees flowing in a huge crowd of tradesmen and merchants from all over. |
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Located on the south-western part of Xinjiang, the city of Kashgar developed itself in a hostile geographical environment. |
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It ran by the towns of Turpan and Kashgar before crossing the Chinese border to reach Central Asia and the Mediterranean sea. |
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In April 1990, for example, Chinese government forces reportedly killed some 50 protestors in putting down a five-day uprising by religious extremists in the Baren district south of Kashgar. |
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Karakoram highway from Islamabad to Kashgar built by China and Pakistan. |
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It is to traverse a portion of this mythical road that we traveled by bus from Kashgar to the town of Tashkurgan, a few kilometers from the Pakistani border. |
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Encircled by the imposing desert of Taklamakan, considered as one of the most inhospitable of the world, and nestled in the impressive Karakorum mountain range, Kashgar was, still recently, a very difficult town to reach. |
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Containing among other spices Iranian rose petals, Chinese cardamom, and Szechuan hot pepper, this blend is inspired by a journey to Kashgar, in the northwest of China, lying along the ancient Silk Road. |
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The town sprung up in the beginning of I th. AD on the route of trade caravans from Kashgar to Samarkand and it had already been walled by VIII-IX cc. |
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Many Uyghurs abandoned Kashgar for safer bases back in the eastern part of the Yuan dynasty. |
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And Mr Bernstein is simply wrong about being the first journalist in Kashgar for years. To make up for that, Mr Bernstein writes in a felicitous style, enlivened at times with a telling metaphor or a sharpish insight. |
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A fertile oasis, it was a major trading station on the Silk Road between the Pamir and Kashgar, as well as the centre of the independent kingdoms of Chinese Turkestan. |
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Kashgar is rapidly becoming a Chinese city like many others. |
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As with the Tibetan turmoil, the Chinese government says that the violence which left 140 dead in Urumqi before unrest spread to Kashgar, Xinjiang's second city, was a plot by overseas forces bent on splitting the motherland. |
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We left this large metropolis to reach the mythical city of Kashgar. |
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The bazaar is the largest of the KKH between Rawalpindi and Kashgar. |
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The two delegations agreed to increase passenger and combination services frequencies for operations to Urumqi, Xining, Kashgar, Yinchuan and Zhengzhou. |
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Other dialects like the Kashgar and Turpan dialects continue to be spoken. |
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Some of the kingdoms paying tribute to the Tang dynasty included Kashmir, Nepal, Khotan, Kucha, Kashgar, Korea, Champa, and kingdoms located in Amu Darya and Syr Darya valley. |
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Modern woven carpet illustrating camel caravan on Silk Road, from Kashgar. |
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