Qinggil

English

Map including Qinggil He (DMA, 1989)

Etymology

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Proper noun

Qinggil

1. A county of Altay prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 2017, Zhi-Qiang Liu, Nuer Kuermanali, Zhao Li, Shi-Jun Chen, Yuan-Zhi Wang, Han Tao, Chuang-Fu Chen, “The complete mitochondrial genome of the parasitic sheep ked Melophagus ovinus (Diptera: Hippoboscidae)”, in Mitochondrial DNA Part B‎^[1], volume 2, number 2, via Taylor & Francis, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 March 2021, page 432:

     Sheep ked were collected in the spring of 2014 from the Qinggil County (89°47’–91°04’ E, 45°00’–47°20’N), Xinjiang UAR, China.

   • 2017 December 18, Qiao Long, “China Detains Kazakhs During 'Unity Week' in Troubled Xinjiang Region”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia‎^[2], archived from the original on October 29, 2020:

     Meanwhile, in the Altay region of Xinjiang, which borders Kazakhstan, authorities recently detained three ethnic Kazakhs in Qinggil (in Chinese, Qinghe) county, a former township official told RFA.
     "Three people in Qinggil county have been detained, and we are trying to find out where they are," the former official said. "We found out [on Saturday] that they have been detained, but we don't know where they're being held."

   • 2018, Wang Ke, translated by Carissa Fletcher, The East Turkestan Independence Movement, 1930s to 1940s‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 190:

     In the Qinggil rebel group, political power was concentrated in the hands of Osman, Sugurbayow and other Kazakh figures, while the political leader of the Jiminay faction was the Uyghur Molla Islam Ismayil.

   • 2021, Li Juan, translated by Jack Hargreaves and Yan Yan, Winter Pasture: One Woman's Journey with China's Kazakh Herders‎^[4], 1st edition, Astra Publishing House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page [5]:

     The news story that Kama read was about an elderly person named Abibao in Qinggil County who had raised ten orphans.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Qinghe, Ch'ing-ho

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 青河 (zh) (Qīnghé)

• Japanese: チンギル (chingiru)
• Kazakh: Шіңгіл (Şıñgıl)
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qinghe”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2547, column 1: “Also known as Qinggil.”