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The Tashkurgan River begins just north of the Khunjerab Pass and flows north along the Karakoram Highway to Tashkurgan.
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Tashkurgan and River
Just north of Tashkurgan it turns east and flows through a gorge to the Tarim Basin where it joins the Yarkand River.
From Tashkurgan one travelled just over south to the junction of the Minteke River.
From Tashkurgan one travelled just over south to the junction of the Minteke River.
Tashkurgan and north
The town is connected by the Karakoram Highway to Karimabad, Gilgit and Chilas on the south and the Chinese cities of Tashkurgan, Upal and Kashgar in the north.
A newer road goes east over the Kulma Pass to the Karakoram Highway in China connecting to Tashkurgan to the south and Kashgar in the north.
Tashkurgan and Pass
From Yarkant another important route headed southwest via Tashkurgan Town to the Wakhan corridor from where travellers could cross the relatively easy Baroghil Pass and Badakshan.
Tashkurgan and along
The Chinese port of entry is located along the road from the pass in Tashkurgan County.
Tashkurgan and Karakoram
The Taghdumbash Pamir is between Tashkurgan and the Wakhan west of the Karakoram Highway.
The Sost dry port is connected by the Karakoram Highway to Karimabad, Gilgit and Chilas on the South and to the Chinese cities of Piarali, Tashkurgan, Upal and Kashgar in the North.
Today Tashkurgan is on the Karakoram Highway which follows the old Silk Road route from China to Pakistan.
Tashkurgan and Highway
However, the building of the Karakorum Highway from Pakistan to China, which runs past nearby Tashkurgan and Karakul Lake, has now made it more accessible.
Tashkurgan and .
At the beginning of the 19th century they belonged to Bukhara ; but under the emir Dost Mahommed the Afghans recovered Balkh and Tashkurgan in 1850, Akcha and the four western khanates in 1855, and Kunduz in 1859.
On the Chinese side, the pass is from Tashkurgan, from Kashgar and some from Urumqi.
Many Gilgitis and Kunjuti were also enslaved in China After being freed due to the efforts of British authorities in China, many slaves such as Gilgitis in Xinjiang cities like Tashkurgan, Yarkand, and Karghallik, stayed rather than return to Gilgit.
Two years later, he travelled alone and on horseback through the Pamir Mountains, from Osh to Murgabh to the upper Wakhan to Tashkurgan and back.
The Wakhan is connected to Tashkurgan Tajik County, China by a long, narrow strip called the Wakhan Corridor, which separates the Gorno-Badakhshan region of Tajikistan from the North-West Frontier Province and Gilgit-Baltistan of Pakistan. Wakhan between Pakistan and Tajikistan
The main road continues over a low pass ( where the population becomes Tajik ) and descends to Tashkurgan.
Passenger road service between Tashkurgan and Sost also exists, and road service between Kashgar and Gilgit ( via Tashkurgan and Sust ) started in summer 2006.
Tashkurgan or Tashiku ' ergan (; Sarikoli: ; ) is the principal town and seat of Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China.
Tashkurgan means Stone Fortress or Stone Tower.
In Chinese Tashkurgan is written as 塔什库尔干镇 in simplified characters and 塔什庫爾干鎮 in traditional characters ; it is pronounced Tǎshíkù ' ěrgān Zhèn in pinyin.
Ruins of Tashkurgan Fort in 2011.
Tashkurgan is thought by some to be the " Stone Tower " of Ptolemy and other authors, where caravans from the West met to trade with those from China.
Tashkurgan has a long history as a stop on the Silk Road.
About 2, 000 years ago, during the Han Dynasty Tashkurgan was the main centre of the Kingdom of Puli ( 蒲犁 ) and is mentioned in both the Hanshu and the later Hou Hanshu.
Mentions in the Weilüe of the Kingdom of Manli ( 滿犁 ) probably also refer to Tashkurgan.
Many centuries later Tashkurgan became the capital of Sarikol kingdom ( 色勒库尔 ), a kingdom of the Pamir Mountains, and later of Qiepantuo ( 朅盘陀 ) under the Persians.
In Tashkurgan there is a museum that houses a few local artifacts, a photographic display and, in the basement, two mummies-one of a young woman about 18, and another of a baby about 3 months old which, however, was not hers.
River and begins
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