Guma (Goma) Town ( Chinese : 固玛镇 ; pinyin : Gùmǎ Zhèn ; Uyghur : گۇما بازىرى, Гома ), also known as Pishan Town ( Chinese : 皮山镇, Pinyin : Píshān; written 皮亢, Pikang in the Weilüe ), is an ancient oasis town on the main caravan route between Khotan and Karghalik and, in Han times, the route left from here to go to Arachosia ( Kandahar ) through Hunza . It is located in the Taklamakan Desert , in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, about 158 km southeast of Kashgar in modern Xinjiang , China .
4-562: Gumma or Guma may refer to: Places Guma, Pishan County , seat and subdivision of Guma (Pishan) County, Xinjiang, China Guma County , subdivision of Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, China Guma, Luanzhou , a town in Hebei, China Guma (woreda) , one of the Districts of Ethiopia in the Oromia region The Kingdom of Gumma (also spelled Guma ),
8-503: A former kingdom in the Gibe region of Ethiopia Guma, Abkhazia , Georgia Guma, India , West Bengal Guma railway station , West Bengal, India Gumma, Gajapati , Odisha, India Gumma, an alternative spelling of Gunma Prefecture in Japan Guma, Nigeria , a Local Government Area of Benue State Other uses Gumma (pathology) , a characteristic tissue nodule found in
12-531: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Guma, Pishan County The Hanshu (which describes events up to 23 CE) mentions that it had 500 households, 3,500 individuals and 500 persons able to bear arms. It was an important hub for caravans heading south to India over the Karakorum route or through the Pamirs to Jalalabad or Badakhshan . Today, Pishan
16-541: The tertiary stage of syphilis Guma, a type of Indonesian parang . Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Gumma . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gumma&oldid=1256381438 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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