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Shaptul

Shaptul proper noun: a town in Payzawat, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, formerly a township.

Proper noun

Shaptul

  1. A town in Payzawat, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, formerly a township.
    • Farther on we passed the villages of Kazan Kul and Shaptul ; a weekly market is held at the latter.
      "Beyond Fyzabad habitations became scarcer, and ceased altogether at Yengi Awat, forty-six miles from Kashgar.1876, Thomas Edward Gordon, The Roof of the World, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, →OCLC, page 69
    • Officials in Hotan (Hetian) prefecture’s Qaraqash (Moyu) county recently told RFA that they had been ordered to send 40 percent of area residents to re-education camps, and said they were having trouble meeting the quota.
      Authorities in Peyziwat’s Shaptul township have said they were informed at an...2017 October 31, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Uyghur ‘Political Criminals’ Jailed Without Trial in Xinjiang’s Kashgar Prefecture”, in Alim Seytoff, Mamatjan Juma, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived...
    Synonyms:
    Xiaputule

Synonyms of Shaptul

Forms of Shaptul

alternative formXaptul

Origin of Shaptul

From Uyghur شاپتۇل (shaptul).

Questions about Shaptul

What does Shaptul mean?
Shaptul means a town in Payzawat, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, formerly a township.
What part of speech is Shaptul?
Shaptul is a proper noun.

Words near Shaptul in the dictionary

  1. Shappell
  2. Shappells
  3. Shapps
  4. shaps
  5. shapt
  6. Shaptul
  7. Shapwailutan
  8. Shapwick
  9. Shaq
  10. Shaqra
  11. Shaquille

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