Kashgar, political capital and second largest city of Chinese Turkestan, on the Kizil River; has cotton, silk, carpet, and saddlery industries, and trades with Russia; it is the centre of Mohammedanism in Eastern Turkestan, a pilgrim city; has been in Chinese hands since 1758, but is chiefly under Russian influence.
Population (circa 1900) given as 120,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Kaschau * Kassala