Toksun

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Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur توقسۇن (toqsun).

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Toksun

  1. A county of Turpan prefecture, Xinjiang, China
    • 1933, Aurel Stein, Note on a Map of the Turfan Basin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 240:
      As shown by the map, this hill range, known over different sections by varying local names such as Tuz-tagh or Kawan-tagh, stretches with a general east-to-west direction along the whole length of the depression from the Pichan oasis to north of Toksun.
    • 1936, Sven Hedin, The Flight of "Big Horse": The Trail of War in Central Asia, E. P. Dutton, →OCLC, page 15:
      The Tungans fled towards Toksun, while the government troops stormed Turfan, which our convoy had left a few days before.
    • 1997, “Impressions on Fire Land”, in Travelling around Xinjiang: A Land of Enchantment, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 198, columns 2, 3:
      Karez in Xinjiang has a long history. Karez in Toksun County today has a history of more than 300 years. The karez in Shanshan County dates back to 400-plus years ago. In recent years, an ancient karez was unearthed in Turpan, which is over 100 m long, with 7 vertical wells. It has a history of 1 500 years.
    • 2017, Kinling Lo, “Hot ways to chill: China’s heat wave inspires creative thinking among sweltering locals”, in South China Morning Post:
      The two hottest places in China on Monday were Linxian in Shanxi province, and Toksun county in the Xinjiang region, which both saw temperatures of 42 degrees.
    • 2018, “China Focus: Industry plays big role in poverty alleviation in Xinjiang”, in Liangyu, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 8 August 2020:
      Zhou Bangyu, an official from Hunan Province in central China, helped Yiburanyim Abulza, a poor villager in Toksun County sell 800 kilograms of dried grapes in two weeks.
    • 2019, Ligaya Mishan, “Uighur Noodles, Terrifically Chewy and Earthy, at Nurlan in Flushing, Queens”, in New York Times:
      Elsewhere in Central Asia, laghman is often submerged in broth, but here the noodles are cooked on their own and then given a ladling of beef stew. “Soup is soup; laghman is laghman,” said Adil Nurdun, who grew up in Toksun County, south of Xinjiang’s capital, Urumqi, and runs the restaurant with Arkin Ali, a native of Aksu Prefecture to the west, bordering Kyrgyzstan.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Toksun.
  2. A town in Toksun, Turpan prefecture, Xinjiang, China
  3. A township in Baicheng, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang, China

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