Minfeng
See also: Min-feng
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Etymology edit
From the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 民豐／民丰 (Mínfēng).
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Minfeng
- Niya
- 1975, The Chinese Exhibition A pictorial record of the Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of The People's Republic of China[1], Burd & Fletcher:
- 247. Brocade mitten with the characters: Yen Nien Yi Shou 1st-2nd century A.D. (Eastern Han) Length 24 cm. Unearthed in 1959 from a site at Niya, Minfeng county in Sinkiang
- 1984, Chao Sung-chiao, edited by Farouk El-Baz, Analysis of desert terrain in China using Landsat imagery (Deserts and arid lands)[2], Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, page 127:
- On the ancient Niya delta plain, more than 120 km north of the modern Minfeng (Niya) oasis, the famous Jin-Jua kingdom was founded during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.).
- 2012, Frommer's China (Frommer's)[3], 5th edition, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., page 329:
- These buses stop at the oasis towns of Keriya (Yutian; 177km/110 miles; 3 hr.; ¥25), Niya (Minfeng; 294km/182 miles; 5 hr.; ¥55), and Charchan (Qiemo; 603km/374 miles; 8-10 hr.; ¥105-¥147).
- 2015, Roseanne Gerin, reporter Eset Sulaiman, “Chinese Authorities Ban Muslim Names Among Uyghurs in Hotan”, in Eset Sulaiman, editor, Radio Free Asia[4]:
- A Uyghur woman named Turakhan who lives in a suburban village of Niya (in Chinese, Minfeng) county in Hotan (Hetian) prefecture told RFA’s Uyghur Service on Wednesday that the village chief and police had informed all residents about “the list of forbidden Muslim names.”
- 2018, “In pics: highways in Taklimakan Desert in China's Xinjiang”, in ZD, editor, Xinhua News Agency[5]:
- The first highway across the Taklimakan, running 522 kilometers from Lunnan in the north, to Minfeng county in the south, was opened to traffic in 1995.