TASHKURGHAN  , or KxuLm, a khanate and See also:

• TOWN

town of Afghan See also:

• TURKESTAN
• TURKESTAN, or HAZRET

Turkestan . The khanate lies between See also:

• KUNDUZ

Kunduz and See also:

• BALKH

Balkh . The See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient town of Khulm stood in the See also:

• OXUS

Oxus See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain, surrounded by orchards of famous productiveness; but it was destroyed by Ahmad Shah Abdali, who founded Tashkurghan in the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and took all the inhabitants away from Khulm to populate it . Ancient Khulm is now only a See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

mass of ruins; but Tashkurghan, lying two or three See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles to the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south of it, has become the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade-mart of Afghan Turkestan and second only in importance to Mazar-i-Sharif, the military centre of the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province; while it is much larger and more prosperous than the latter See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place . At Tashkurghan the caravans from See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India and Bolthara meet, and from here the merchandise is distributed all over the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country . A See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill fortress dominates the town and overlooks the debouchment of the road from See also:

• HAIBAK

Haibak and See also:

• KABUL

Kabul into the plains of the Oxus .