Ulugqat
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English
Alternative forms
- Ulugchat
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ulugqat
- A county of Kizilsu, Xinjiang, China
- 1989, Muqi (车慕奇) Che, “From Kizil Thousand-Buddha Grottoes to Kizil River Valley”, in 丝绸之路今昔, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 241:
- Geluo Ridge on the upper reaches of the Kizil River is in present-day Ulugqat (Ulugchat), an important mountain pass for going beyond China’s territory on the Silk Road.
- 2004, Old Boys, 1st edition (Fiction), The Overlook Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18:
- "Any idea what Paul was doing in Xinjiang?"
"No. The country around Ulugqat is still a forbidden zone."
- 2014 July 4, Michael Martina, “Muslims in China's Xinjiang told to ignore Ramadan customs”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 16 August 2022, World News:
- One village school near Ulugqat county close to China’s western border said students were prohibited from entering mosques, according to a party-affiliated news site, Pingan Net.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ulugqat.
Synonyms
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Wu-ch'ia, Wuqia
Translations
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuqia”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3495, column 2: “Also called Ulugqat.”
- Ulugqat, Ulugchat, Wuqia, Wuchia at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
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