Tacheng

See also: Tǎchéng and T'a-ch'eng

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From Mandarin 塔城 (Tǎchéng).

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Tacheng

  1. A prefecture of Xinjiang, China.
    • 2021 April 7, Hoshur, Shohret; Joshua Lipes, “Wife of Jailed Uyghur Taxi Driver Jailed For Weeping in Front of a Foreigner”, in Uyghur Service, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 07 April 2021:
      According to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal, the day before her disappearance, Munira went to the Ghulja city Public Security Bureau, where she requested permission to videochat with her husband, who is serving his sentence in Shiho (Wusu) city, in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture’s Tarbaghatay (Tacheng) prefecture. The police reportedly denied her request.
  2. A county-level city in Tacheng prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
    • 1998, Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg, China's Last Nomads, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 25:
      The Daur minority is another Mongolian-speaking group, most of whom live near the town of Tacheng (Qochek), near the Kazakstan border.

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