Kashgar University
Kashi University (; ug, قەشقەر ئۇنىۋېر سىتېتى), formerly Kashgar University and Kashgar Normal College (), is a university in Kashgar, Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ..., China. The university is the westernmost university in China. The school was founded in 1962 and was formerly known as Xinjiang Kashgar Teachers College, then Kashgar Normal College, and finally on April 28, 2015 the name was changed to Kashgar University as it was upgraded to university status. Headmaster is Zhao Gang. External links Kashgar University {{authority control Universities and colleges in Xinjiang Kashgar Universities and colleges established in 1962 1962 establishments in China ...
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Kashgar
Kashgar ( ug, قەشقەر, Qeshqer) or Kashi ( zh, c=喀什) is an oasis city in the Tarim Basin region of Southern Xinjiang. It is one of the westernmost cities of China, near the border with Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Pakistan. With a population of over 500,000, Kashgar has served as a trading post and strategically important city on the Silk Road between China, the Middle East and Europe for over 2,000 years, making it one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the World. At the convergence point of widely varying cultures and empires, Kashgar has been under the rule of the Chinese, Turkic, Mongol and Tibetan empires. The city has also been the site of a number of battles between various groups of people on the steppes. Now administered as a county-level unit, Kashgar is the administrative center of Kashgar Prefecture, which has an area of and a population of approximately 4 million as of 2010. The city itself has a population of 506,640, and its ...
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