Korla

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

Korla

1. A county-level city in Bayingolin, Xinjiang, China.
   • 1878, Demetrius Charles Boulger, The Life of Yakoob Beg; Athalik Ghazi and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar‎^[1], London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., →OCLC, pages 244–245:

     Toksoun, a fortified place, some miles nearer Korla, on the main road, was occupied by 4,000 jigits and 2,000 sarbazes with five guns. Hacc Kuli Beg had command here. At Korla there were also about 1,500 men, who were brought up to the front shortly after Captain Kuropatkine's departure.

   • 1989, Che Muqi (车慕奇), 丝绸之路今昔 [The Silk Road, Past and Present]‎^[2], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 198:

     The first stage of the project began at the Turpan station of the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway and ended at the western station of Korla, extending over 476 kilometres.

   • 1994, Christa Paula, The Road to Miran‎^[3], HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 205–206:

     Korla, the capital of the Bayingolin Mongol Administrative Region, is a flat, grey sprawl of low buildings and a few ostentatious new hotels, nestled in the armpit of the Tian and Kuruktagh mountains. It is marked by industry. The natural gas fields have brought money since the 1950s and with it a massive influx of Han Chinese. No one nationality appears to be in the absolute majority, resulting in the undefined ugliness caused by lack of pride or urban planning. Korla is a place of transit. Everyone stops here. It is the terminus of the railway, and a nodal point for the roads from Urumgi, Kashgar, Ruogiang and the East.

   • 2001 February 14, “China To Execute Islamic Protester”, in AP News‎^[4], archived from the original on 03 February 2021‎^[5]:

     A Muslim activist was sentenced to death in China’s restive northwest for setting up a group that wants to establish Islamic rule, a court official said Wednesday.
     Arkhan Abulla was sentenced by the People’s Intermediate Court in Korla, a city in the Xinjiang region, said a court official, who would not say when sentencing took place.

   • 2019 April 17, Min Zhang, Aizhu Chen, “CNPC starts building $1.4 bln ethylene plant in northwest China -state media”, in Joseph Radford, editor, Reuters‎^[6], archived from the original on 16 May 2022, Oil Report‎^[7]:

     The complex, located in Korla city in southern Xinjiang, will have key production units such as a 600,000 tonnes-per-year ethylene facility and a 300,000 tpy high-density polyethylene facility, the newspaper said.

   • 2020 August 24, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Former Camp Detainees Serving ‘Deferred’ Jail Sentences in Xinjiang’s Korla City”, in Elise Anderson, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[8], archived from the original on August 28, 2020‎^[9]:

     RFA’s Uyghur Service recently received information that the former detainees in Korla (in Chinese, Kuerle)—a county-level city in Bayin’gholin Mongol (in Chinese, Bayinguoleng Menggu) Autonomous Prefecture and the XUAR’s scond-largest city—are serving the deferred sentences at home, but are subject to harsh restrictions.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Korla.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Ku'erle, K'u-erh-le, K'u-erh-lo

Translations

city in Xinjiang

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 庫爾勒／库尔勒 (zh) (Kù'ěrlè)

• Japanese: コルラ (Korura)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: كورلا (korla)

Further reading

• Korla, Ku'erle, Kuerle at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Korla”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[10], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1602, column 3

Anagrams

• Kolar