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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