Meaning of Korla | Babel Free

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A county-level city of Bayingolin, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

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“Toksoun, a fortified place, some miles nearer Korla, on the main road, was occupied by 4,000 jigits and 2,000 sarbazes with five guns. Hacc Kuli Beg had command here. At Korla there were also about 1,500 men, who were brought up to the front shortly after Captain Kuropatkine's departure.”

“The first stage of the project began at the Turpan station of the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway and ended at the western station of Korla, extending over 476 kilometres.”

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“Korla, the capital of the Bayingolin Mongol Administrative Region, is a flat, grey sprawl of low buildings and a few ostentatious new hotels, nestled in the armpit of the Tian and Kuruktagh mountains. It is marked by industry. The natural gas fields have brought money since the 1950s and with it a massive influx of Han Chinese. No one nationality appears to be in the absolute majority, resulting in the undefined ugliness caused by lack of pride or urban planning. Korla is a place of transit. Everyone stops here. It is the terminus of the railway, and a nodal point for the roads from Urumgi, Kashgar, Ruogiang and the East.”

“A Muslim activist was sentenced to death in China’s restive northwest for setting up a group that wants to establish Islamic rule, a court official said Wednesday. Arkhan Abulla was sentenced by the People’s Intermediate Court in Korla, a city in the Xinjiang region, said a court official, who would not say when sentencing took place.”

“The complex, located in Korla city in southern Xinjiang, will have key production units such as a 600,000 tonnes-per-year ethylene facility and a 300,000 tpy high-density polyethylene facility, the newspaper said.”

“RFA’s Uyghur Service recently received information that the former detainees in Korla (in Chinese, Kuerle)—a county-level city in Bayin’gholin Mongol (in Chinese, Bayinguoleng Menggu) Autonomous Prefecture and the XUAR’s scond-largest city—are serving the deferred sentences at home, but are subject to harsh restrictions.”

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