P'i-shan

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See also: Pishan

English

Map including (P'I-SHAN) PISHAN (DMA, 1984)

Etymology

From Mandarin 皮山 (Píshān), Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻi²-shan¹.

Proper noun

P'i-shan

  1. Alternative form of Pishan (Guma)
    • 1905 October, “China and the Ancient Cabul Valley”, in The English Historical Review, number LXXX, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 626:
      Now, 2,000 years ago, we are told that from Pʻi-shan you go east to Khoten 380 li (120 miles), and from Pʻi-shan you got north-west to Yarkand exactly the same distance. Hence both ancient and contemporary Pʻi-shan must be the first considerable town north of Shahidula, in the immediate neighbourhood of Sanju.
    • 1922, Sven Hedin, Southern Tibet, volume 8, Stockholm, →OCLC, page 5:
      In how far the name of that time was bound to the western mountains is already proved by the observation that the Ts'ung-ling is not mentioned at all in the adjoining mountainous regions to the north and south, viz., first on the line from Wen-su (Uch-Turfan) to the Wu-sun, on Issik-köl. and secondly from P'i-shan (on the Kiliang River to the west of Khoan) viâ Wu-ch'a to North-western India⁵.
    • 1962, Central Asian Review, volume 4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 441:
      The Novabad national rural area in the Guma (P'i-shan) county made up of three settlements with a population of 512, of whom 480 are Tadzhiks, 27 Uygurs, and five Kirgiz.

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