Karghalik
English
Map including Karghalik (CIA, 1950)
Etymology
Borrowed from Uyghur قاغىلىق (qaghiliq).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kärgälĭkʹ
Proper noun
Karghalik
- Alternative form of Kargilik
- 1893, Henry Lansdell, Chinese Central Asia, volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, & Company, OCLC 4845007, 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, 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).
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