Kashgar
the capital of Eastern Turkestan, Chinese empire; on a fertile and well-watered plain, 4,043 feet above sea-level; between the old city and the new (1838, containing the palace of the Chinese governor of eastern Turkestan).
It is important commercially and strategically; in 1759 it was conquered by by the Chinese, who held it with short intervals till 1863, when Yakub Beg made it his capital, the Chinese again obtaining possession of it in 1877. Pop. between 60,000 and 70,000.