Taxkorgan
English edit
T'a-shih-k'u-erh-kan (DMA, 1985)
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Uyghur تاشقورغان (tashqorghan).
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Proper noun edit
Taxkorgan
- A Tajik autonomous county in Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
- 1990, Great Journeys[1], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 35:
- The wind had smoothed its sand over the nearby mountains, turning them to ghosts. And beyond the snow-mass of Muztagata we entered the valley of Taxkorgan, the last town in the west.
- 1993, “TAJIK NATIONALITY”, in 曾庆南 [Zeng Qingnan], 张纬雯 [Zhang Weiwen], editors, 中国少数民族风情录 [In Search of China's Minorities][2], Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 108:
- Totaling 33,000, the Tajik nationality is mostly concentrated in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, east of the Pamirs in southwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The rest are scattered in a few counties south of the Tianshan Mountains within the same autonomous region.
- [2003, Ma Rong, “Population Distribution and Relations Among Ethnic Groups in the Kashgar Region, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region”, in China's Minorities on the Move: Selected Case Studies[3], East Gate Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114:
- Tash Qurghan is an autonomous county for the Tajik, therefore the majority of the population is Tajik.]
- 2017 May 10, Adam Jourdan, “Eight killed when magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits China's northwest”, in Paul Tait, editor, Reuters[4], archived from the original on 11 May 2017, Environment:
- The China Earthquake Administration (CEA) said the quake occurred in the remote Taxkorgan County area of Kashgar Prefecture at a depth of 8 km (5 miles). Xinhua said in a microblog post 11 people were also injured.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taxkorgan.
- A town in Taxkorgan, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
Synonyms edit
Translations edit
autonomous county in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China; a town in Taxkorgan, Kashgar, Xinjiang, China
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