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Yarkand
Yarkand, also called Shache, is an oasis city in the south-western Tarim Basin of Xinjiang, China, on the Yarkand River. A station on the Silk Road routes to India and Bactria, it was the capital of the Yarkent Khanate from 1514 until the Dzungar conquest of 1680, and later a major town of Kashgaria under Qing rule. Its people are mainly Uyghurs.
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