Jiya

Proper noun

Jiya

1. A township in Hotan City, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
   • Women work in an Etles silk mill in Jiya Town of Hotan City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Aug. 8, 2017. Etles silk, with a history of more than a thousand years in Hotan City, is regarded as the witness of the cultural mixture between China and the neighboring countries as it...2017 August 15, Ma Kai, “Etles silk production craft revived in China's Xinjiang”, in An, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2019
   • An ethnic Uighur man looks on at the cemetery surrounding the tomb of Imam Asim in the Taklamakan Desert outside the village of Jiya near Hotan, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, March 21, 2017.2018 November 8, “Who Are the Uighurs?”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2020, East Asia Pacific