Yarkand

Yarkand

1. Alternative form of Yarkant
   • 1800, John Pinkerton, Petralogy‎, volume I, White, Cochrane, and Co., page 280:

     Goez, who travelled to Tibet in 1602, in describing Yarkand, the capital of the kingdom of Kasgar, in Little Bucharia, mentions, that a commodity, particularly acceptable in China, was a kind of marble or jasper, found in Kasgar*.

   • 2009, Christopher I. Beckwith, Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present‎, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 240:

     The Manchu-Chinese replaced the Junghar imperial coinage of East Turkistan with Manchu-Chinese coins they began minting at Yarkand in 1759.