Tacheng

Proper noun

Tacheng

1. A prefecture of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
   • More than 13,000 geese were destroyed in Tacheng, in the Xinjiang autonomous region, after about 500 died of H5N1 avian flu, China's Agriculture Ministry reported.2005 June 11, Donald G. McNeil Jr., “New Asian Flu Outbreaks in China Raise Fears of a Mutant Virus”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015
   • Late on the night of August 26, 1855, an inferno raged through the Russian trade concession in the Qing frontier town of Tacheng.[…]
   • In 1766, less than ten years after the conquest of Xinjiang, Qing forces founded a small outpost on the farthest western edge of their rapidly expanding new empire. They named it Suijingcheng, or "Pacification Town," a name that reflected an ongoing reality in this volatile region, as attempts to...2010, Judd Kinzley, “Turning Prospectors into Settlers: Gold, Immigrant Miners and the Settlement of the Frontier in Late Qing Xinjiang”, in Sherman Cochran, Paul G. Pickowicz, editors, China on the...
2. A county-level city of Tacheng prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
   • The Daur minority is another Mongolian-speaking group, most of whom live near the town of Tacheng (Qochek), near the Kazakstan border.1998, Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg, China's Last Nomads, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page 25
   • Snowstorms in the Tacheng city in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have brought lows of minus 25 degrees Celsius.2011 January 5, “Factbox: China winter weather latest developments”, in Sui-Lee Wee, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2024, ワールド

   Synonyms:

   Chuguchak