A partly demolished building in Kashgar, an ancient Silk Road trading hub whose old city is being threatened by a Chinese-government redevelopment plan
Alessandro Digaetano / Polaris
Qeshqer diyarimizning qedimiy tarixi jaylar Xitay qurulush pilanigha nisbeten yoqutushqa dawam qilmaqta.
In 1072, a medieval scholar named Mahmud Kashgari — from, as his name suggests, the Silk Road outpost of Kashgar — presented a landmark text to the Caliph of Baghdad. It was the first ever compendium of the Turkish language, the babble of tongues spoken by nomadic tribes who roamed between the shores of the Caspian Sea and the wastes of Siberia. Despite the scope of his work, Kashgari was proudest of his hometown, boasting that the Turkic dialect there was the "purest" and "most elegant" of them all.
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