Kokyar

Proper noun

Kokyar

1. A township in Yutian, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
   • On Feb. 16, authorities in nearby Keriye (Yutian) county announced a move to add 254 additional auxiliary members to its police force, with 204 jobs reserved for ethnic Uyghurs and 50 spaces held for Han Chinese, local media reports said. Speaking to RFA, a police officer in Keriye’s Kokyar...2017, Richard Finney, reporter Eset Sulaiman, “Xinjiang Police Launch Recruitment Drive Following Uyghur Knife Attack”, in Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia
2. A township in Kargilik, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
   • Next day we marched to Kokyar, twelve miles. Route west, across a sandy ridge two miles off, and then up the gully of the Kokyar river, which flows in a narrow winding valley from south to north, between high ridges of sand and gravel, to the town itself which is the capital of this district.1875, H. W. Bellew, Kashmir and Kashghar: A Narrative of the Journey of the Embassy to Kashghar in 1873-74, London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC, page 391
   • As it was already later in the year, we had chosen the winter route (zamistani) over Kokyar.1926, Albert von Le Coq, translated by Anna Barwell, Buried Treasures of Chinese Turkestan, George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, page 153