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HAMI , a See also:town in See also:Chinese See also:Turkestan, otherwise called KAMIL, KOMUL or KAMUL, situated on the See also:southern slopes of the Tian-Shan mountains, and on the See also:northern See also:verge of the See also:Great See also:Gobi See also:desert, in 42° 48' N., 93° 28' E., at a height above See also:sea-level of 3150 ft. The town is first mentioned in Chinese See also:history in the 1st See also:century, under the name I-wu-lu, and said to be situated See also:I000 lis See also:north of the fortress Yu-men-kuan, and.to be the See also:key to the western countries. This evidently referred to its advantageous position, lying as it did in a fertile See also:tract, at the point of convergence of two See also:main routes See also:running north and See also:south of the Tian-Shan and connecting See also:China with the See also:west. It was taken by the Chinese in A.D. 73 from the Hiungnu (the See also:ancient inhabitants of See also:Mongolia), and made a military station. It next See also:fell into the hands of the Uighurs or Eastern See also:Turks, who made it one of their See also:chief towns and held it for several centuries, and whose descendants are said to live there now. From the 7thto the rrth century I-wu-lu is said to have See also:borne the name of Igu or I-chu, under the former of which names it is spoken of by the Chinese See also:pilgrim, Hsiian tsang, who passed through it in the 7th century. The name Hami is first met in the Chinese Yuan-See also:ski or " History of the Mongol See also:Dynasty," but the name more generally used there is Homi-li or Komi-li. Marco See also:Polo, describing it apparently from hearsay, calls it Camul, and speaks of it as a fruitful See also:place inhabited by a Buddhist See also:people of idolatrous and wanton habits. It was visited in 1341 by Giovanni de See also:Marignolli, who baptized a number of both sexes there, and by the envoys of Shah Rukh (1420), who found a magnificent See also:mosque and a See also:convent of dervishes, in juxtaposition with a See also:fine Buddhist See also:temple. Hadji Mahommed (See also:Ramusio's friend) speaks of Kamul as being in his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time (c. 1550) the first See also:Mahommedan See also:city met with in travelling from China. When See also:Benedict Goes travelled through the See also:country at the beginning of the 17th century, the See also:power of 1the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king Mahommed See also:Khan of See also:Kashgar extended over nearly the whole country at the See also:base of the Tian-Shan to the Chinese frontier, including Kamil. It fell under the sway of the Chinese in 1720, was lost to them in 1865 during the great Mahommedan See also:rebellion, and the See also:trade route through it was consequently closed, but was regained in 1873. Owing to its commanding position on the See also:principal route to the west, and its exceptional fertility, it has very frequently changed hands in the See also:wars between China and her western neighbours. Hami is now a small town of about 6000 inhabitants, and is a busy trading centre. The Mahommedan See also:population consists of immigrants from Kashgaria, See also:Bokhara and See also:Samarkand, and of descendants of the Uighurs.
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