Yarkand
Britishnoun
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That same year, according to a Chinese news report cited by Horizon, Xinjiang’s Yarkand County signed a “labor export cooperation framework agreement” with a subsidiary named East Hope Group Xinjiang Aluminum Company.
From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2021
Tourists who were in the area described military checkpoints on roads leading in and out of Yarkand.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2014
The clashes took place Sunday night and Monday morning in villages near Yarkand, also known as Shache, a desert oasis near China’s western border with Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2014
Mutinous Chinese Nationalist troops, who had not been paid for seven months, were in possession of Yarkand, and it took Paxton's smoothest Chinese to talk his party's way through.
From Time Magazine Archive
Arriving at Khotan, the traveller witnessed a great Buddhist festival; here, as in Yarkand, Afghanistan and other parts thoroughly Islamized before the close of the middle ages, Fa-Hien shows us Buddhism still prevailing.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
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