Gartok
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Gartok () is made of twin encampment settlements of Gar Günsa and Gar Yarsa (, Wade–Giles: Ka-erh-ya-sha) in the Gar County in the Ngari Prefecture of Tibet. Gar Gunsa served as the winter encampment and Gar Yarsa as the summer encampment. But in British nomenclature, the name Gartok was applied only to Gar Yarsa and the practice continues to date.
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- 昆莎乡
- Region
- 西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།
- Country
- 中国
- Population
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- Country
- China
- Located in
- Tibet Autonomous Region
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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- Tibet–Ladakh-Mughal War
- 19th century
- Early 20th century
- Post-World War period
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Gartok () is made of twin encampment settlements of Gar Günsa and Gar Yarsa (, Wade–Giles: Ka-erh-ya-sha) in the Gar County in the Ngari Prefecture of Tibet. Gar Gunsa served as the winter encampment and Gar Yarsa as the summer encampment. But in British nomenclature, the name Gartok was applied only to Gar Yarsa and the practice continues to date.
Gartok was established as Lhasa's administrative headquarters for Western Tibet (Ngari) after it conquered it from Ladakh in 1684. A senior official called Garpön was stationed here. Gartok (Gar Yarsa) also served as Western Tibet's principal trade-market. But the village itself was small and is said to have been quite poor. After the Chinese annexation of Tibet, the headquarters of Western Tibet was moved to Shiquanhe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gartok” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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