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Tashkurgan

Tashkurgan is the alternative form of Taxkorgan.

Meaning of Taxkorgan

Proper noun

Taxkorgan

  1. A Tajik autonomous county in Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • The archeological office of the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region museum discovered a large number of ancient tombs in Tashihkuerhkan Tadzhik Autonomous County.[1977 November 25 [1977 November 20], “Sinkiang Archeological Find Refutes Soviet Distortion of History”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 227, Foreign Broadcast...
  2. A town in Taxkorgan, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    Synonyms:
    T'a-shih-k'u-erh-kan, Tash Kurghan

Origin of Tashkurgan

Borrowed from Uyghur تاشقۇرغان (tashqurghan).

Questions about Tashkurgan

What is Tashkurgan the alternative form of?
Tashkurgan is the alternative form of Taxkorgan.

Words near Tashkurgan in the dictionary

  1. Tashkenter
  2. Tashkenters
  3. Tashkenti
  4. Tashkentis
  5. tashkil
  6. Tashkurgan
  7. Tashlhit
  8. Tashlhiyt
  9. tashlik
  10. tashlikh
  11. Tashlin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tashkurgan (page history and authors); Taxkorgan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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