Kashka-Jol
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Kashka-Jol ("blazed track") is a hamlet in the middle Kara-Buura valley, on the old pack route over the Talas Alatau to the Chatkal valley, in the Talas Alatau planning zone of the Autonomous Tribal Regions (ATR). Its population is about 380 (2022 estimate).[1] The name refers to a pale vein of quartz on a cliff above the track, likened to the white blaze (kashka) on a horse's face, which travelers used as a landmark. Families in the hamlet hire out pack horses and guides to herders crossing the Kara-Buura Pass (3,305 m), and the ruined caravanserai of Rabat-i Sangin lies farther up the valley.[1][2]
References
- ^ United Nations Mission in Irad (2022). Settlements and Services in the Talas Alatau Zone. Kara-Oi.
- ^ Talas State University Press (2012). Archaeological Map of the Talas and Chu Valleys. Talas.
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