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Barkol

Barkol proper noun: a Kazakh autonomous county in Hami prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Proper noun

Barkol

  1. A Kazakh autonomous county in Hami prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • When Chinese come in contact with Mongols in such small numbers that they do not bring with them the disastrous economic and social forms of landlordism and economic subjection to the land, they do not have to underlive and drag down the Mongols, but are able to raise themselves to the Mongol...1935, Owen Lattimore, The Mongols Of Manchuria, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., →OCLC, page 231
    • In October, 1931, when the Tung-kan rebel Ma Chung-ying had successfully captured Barkol (Chen-hsi) and Ha-mi, Chin signed a new agreement with the Soviets.1944, Martin R. Norins, Gateway to Asia: Sinkiang, Frontier of the Chinese Far West, New York: The John Day Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 16
  2. A lake in Barkol, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Examples of Barkol in a sentence

  • But it had just rained in Barkol and the dirt road outside the city was muddy.1989, Che Muqi (车慕奇), 丝绸之路今昔 [The Silk Road, Past and Present], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 122:
  • Although the area has been used by Kazaks off and on since the nineteenth century, the number of Kazaks in Barkol county was never very large.1998, Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg, China's Last Nomads, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 158:
  • Uighur farmers hoe their farmlands to prepare for growing potatoes in Barkol Kazahk Autonomous county, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region May 4, 2014.2014 July 28, Stian Reklev, “Drought hits China food production: Xinhua”, in Tom Hogue, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 23...

Forms of Barkol

alternative formBarköl
alternative formBarkul

Questions about Barkol

What does Barkol mean?
Barkol means a Kazakh autonomous county in Hami prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
How do you use Barkol in a sentence?
But it had just rained in Barkol and the dirt road outside the city was muddy.
What part of speech is Barkol?
Barkol is a proper noun.

Words near Barkol in the dictionary

  1. barklouse
  2. Barkly
  3. barklyite
  4. Barkman
  5. Barkmans
  6. Barkol
  7. barkometer
  8. barkometers
  9. barkpeeler
  10. barkpeelers
  11. barkpeeling

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