Maralbexi
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Etymology
From Uyghur مارالبېشى (maralbëshi).
Proper noun
Maralbexi
- A county of Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China
- 2009, Max Spoor, Shi Xiaoping, “Cotton and Rural Income Development in Xinjiang”, in Max Spoor, editor, The Political Economy of Rural Livelihoods in Transition Economies: Land, peasants and rural poverty in transition, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 238:
- The highest GFAO per agricultural capita, namely 3,391.3 RMB, was found for Bachu (Maralbexi), which is also the largest cotton producer of Kashgar (though just slightly larger than Shache).
- 2013 April 24, “"Terrorist" axe, knife and arson attack kills 21 in China's Xinjiang”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 18 December 2020:
- Three “community workers” were patrolling a neighbourhood of Bachu County, known as Maralbexi by Uighurs, in Kashgar after a tip-off that there were “suspicious people” in a private house, Hou said.
- 2015 November 23, “China: Allow Independent Investigations Into Xinjiang Violence”, in Human Rights Watch, archived from the original on 12 September 2020:
- In April 2013 in Bachu County (or Maralbexi County), 15 officials were reportedly killed. State media reported that the authorities killed 6 alleged attackers, captured 8, and apprehended 11 more later.
- 2017, Scott Nicholas Romaniuk, Francis Grice, Daniela Irrera, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Global Counterterrorism Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 672:
- On the other hand, after the 2012 farm market incident in Kargilik, in October 2014, another random attack happened in a farm market in Maralbexi County, Xinjiang, causing 22 deaths.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Maralbexi.
Synonyms
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Bachu, Pa-ch'u
Translations
county
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Bachu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 262, column 2
- Maralbashi, Bachu, Pachu at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.