Guma (Goma) Town (Chinese:
Guma | |
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Town | |
Coordinates: 37°37′N 78°18′E / 37.617°N 78.300°E | |
Country | China |
Province | Xinjiang |
Prefecture | Kashgar Prefecture |
County | Pishan/Guma County |
The Hanshu (which describes events up to 23 CE) mentions that it had 500 households, 3,500 individuals and 500 persons able to bear arms. It was an important hub for caravans heading south to India over the Karakorum route or through the Pamirs to Jalalabad or Badakhshan.[3]
Today, Pishan is a small, rather poor town of about 2,000 people. The main crop is cotton. Most of the inhabitants are Uyghur and there are some Tajiks.
Pishan County is the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Guma County. It is under the administration of the Hotan Prefecture.
Transportation
editPishan is served by China National Highway 315 and the Kashgar-Hotan Railway.
See also
editFootnotes
editReferences
edit- Hill, John E. 2004. The Peoples of the West from the Weilüe
魏 略 by Yu Huan魚 豢: A Third Century Chinese Account Composed between 239 and 265 CE. Draft annotated English translation.[1] - Hill, John E. (2009) Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, 1st to 2nd Centuries CE. BookSurge, Charleston, South Carolina. ISBN 978-1-4392-2134-1.
- Hulsewé, A. F. P. 1979. China in Central Asia: The Early Stage 125 BC – AD 23: an annotated translation of chapters 61 and 96 of the History of the Former Han Dynasty. E. J. Brill, Leiden. ISBN 90-04-05884-2.
- Roerich, George N. (1931): Trails to Inmost Asia: Five Years of Exploration with the Roerich Central Asian Expedition. Roerich. First Indian Reprint. Book Faith India, Delhi. 1996.
External links
edit- Satellite picture of Pishan
- Silk Road Seattle (The Silk Road Seattle website contains many useful resources including a number of full-text historical works)