Definition of "Karghalik"

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.

1893, Henry Lansdell, Chinese Central Asia‎, volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, & Company, page 143

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).

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

Posgam is a new district which has been carved out of the unwieldy Karghalik charge and placed under a Magistrate of the third class.

1926, C. P. Skrine, Chinese Central Asia‎, Methuen Publishing, page 109

Posgām (in Arabic letters written Būskām) is a large town to the southeast of Yārkand, situated on the trade route coming from Karġalik (today: Yeh-ch‘eng) at a distance of 21 miles from Karġalik.]

, volume XLIX, number 3, School of Oriental and African Studies, page 491