Maralbexi

English

Alternative forms

• Maralbashi, Maralbeshi

Etymology

From Uyghur مارالبېشى (maralbëshi).

Proper noun

Maralbexi

1. 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^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], 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^[4], 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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴楚 (zh) (Bāchǔ)

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• Manchu: ᠪᠠᡵᠴᡠᡴ (barcuk)
• Uyghur: مارالبېشى (maralbëshi)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Bachu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 262, column 2
• Maralbashi, Bachu, Pachu at Google Ngram Viewer