Turfan, an important city in the east of Eastern Turkestan (part of which is sometimes named after it), on the southern slope of the Tian-shan Mountains and on a tributary of the Tarim River. Its once important trade fell off seriously in 1860-70 owing to the troubles in Kashgar. Pop. 30,000.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 326
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