Kampa
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 Kampa Dzong, Tibet 1904 |
Kampa or Kamba Dzong,[1][2][3][a] (Gampa Dzong in Standard Tibetan,[6][b] and Gangba Xian in Chinese)[c] is a Tibetan town north of Sikkim.[8] It is the headequarters Kamba County in the Shigatse Prefecture. It is marked by an iconic hill-top fort, much admired by the expeditions travelling to Mount Everest during the early 20th century. It also used to be a border trading post for Sikkimese traders from North Sikkim, prior to the Chinese annexation of Tibet.
- ^ Bell, Tibet Past and Present (1924), p. 66.
- ^ Lamb, Britain and Chinese Central Asia (1960), p. 156.
- ^ Chan, Victor (1994), Tibet Handbook, Chico, CA: Moon Publications, pp. 839–840 – via archive.org
- ^ Powers & Holzinger, History as Propaganda (2004), p. 79.
- ^ French, Younghusband (1994), p. 175.
- ^ Tibet 2002: A Year Book, Tibet Information Network, London, p. 145.
- ^ a b "Geographical names of Tibet AR (China): Tibet Autonomous Region". KNAB Place Name Database. Institute of the Estonian Language. 2018-06-03.
- ^ Sikkim: a traveller's guide, Volume 2001 by Arundhati Ray, Sujoy Das
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