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Payzawat

Payzawat proper noun: a county of Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Proper noun

Payzawat

  1. A county of Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • Local government officials confirmed for the first time this month that an organized uprising against Chinese rule took place as late as the early 1980s.
      Moslem peasants in Payzawat, 100 kilometres east of Kashgar, raided a military armoury and attacked Han Chinese with the stolen weapons. Units of...1988 May 24, Andrew Roche, “Racial tensions simmer on China's ancient Silk Road”, in Jerusalem Post, volume 56, number 16834, via Internet Archive, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6
    • In the early 1980s, the local people rose up in armed rebellion against the Chinese presence in the regional centre of Payzawat. The Chinese army was called in to put down the uprising and the death toll was high.1994, Pierre-Antoine Donnet, translated by Tica Broch, Tibet: Survival in Question, Zed Books Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134
    Synonyms:
    Jiashi, Kiashi, Chia-shih, Ch'ieh-shih

Examples of Payzawat in a sentence

  • According to official Chinese media, Payzawat (Jiashi) has a population of at least 300,000, while Maralbeshi (Bachu) has a population of 260,000.2003, “DEATH TOLL RISING FAST IN XINJIANG QUAKE”, in Radio Free Asia:
  • Emin travelled from Khotan to Payzawat and agreed to combine his forces with those of Temur to launch an attack on Kashgar.2014, Michael Dillon, Xinjiang and the Expansion of Chinese Communist Power: Kashgar in the Early Twentieth Century, Routledge, →ISBN...
  • A 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit Payzawat County of Kashgar Prefecture in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 00:05 a.m.2020 January 18, “5.4-magnitude earthquake hits Xinjiang: CENC”, in yan, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 21 Mar...

Synonyms of Payzawat

Forms of Payzawat

alternative formFais-abad
alternative formFaiz Abad
alternative formFaizabad
alternative formFaizābād
alternative formFayzabad
alternative formPayziwat
alternative formPäyziwat
alternative formPeizawat
alternative formPeyziwat
alternative formPeyzawat

Origin of Payzawat

From Uyghur پەيزاۋات (peyzawat).

Questions about Payzawat

What does Payzawat mean?
Payzawat means a county of Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
How do you use Payzawat in a sentence?
According to official Chinese media, Payzawat (Jiashi) has a population of at least 300,000, while Maralbeshi (Bachu) has a population of 260,000.
What part of speech is Payzawat?
Payzawat is a proper noun.

Words near Payzawat in the dictionary

  1. paywalls
  2. payware
  3. payyetan
  4. payyetanim
  5. Payyoli
  6. Payzawat
  7. Payziwat
  8. Payómkawichum
  9. Paz
  10. Pazand
  11. Pazar

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