Alaqagha

English

Alternative forms

• Alakaga

Etymology

Borrowed from Uyghur ئالاقاغا (alaqagha).

Proper noun

Alaqagha

1. A town in Kuqa, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
   • 2007, Mahesh Ranjan Debata, “Ethnic Separatism in Xinjiang”, in China's Minorities: Ethnic-religious Separatism in Xinjiang‎^[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 168:

     On 29 April 1996, a group of dozen armed men attacked the houses of Qavul Toqa, a member of the CPPCC National Committee and Deputy to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region People's Congress at Qunas village of Alaqagha Township in Kuqa County.

   • 2014 May 23, Michael Clarke, “Why is Xinjiang violence escalating?”, in BBC‎^[2], archived from the original on May 23, 2014:

     In a recent example that demonstrates both of these tendencies, Radio Free Asia reported on 20 May that in Alaqagha township near Aksu, authorities had violently suppressed a protest against the detention of women and schoolgirls for wearing the hijab or headscarves, killing up to four protestors.

   • 2014 September 19, Simon Denyer, “China's war on terror becomes all-out attack on Islam in Xinjiang”, in Washington Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on September 20, 2014, World‎^[4]:

     A Washington Post team was turned away at the one of several checkpoints around Elishku, as army trucks rumbled past, and was subsequently detained for several hours by informers, police and Communist Party officials for reporting from villages in the surrounding district of Shache county; the following day, the team was again detained in Alaqagha in Kuqa county, and ultimately deported from the region from the nearest airport.

   • 2018, Debasish Chaudhuri, Xinjiang and the Chinese State: Violence in the Reform Era‎^[5], Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     While the Chinese state and international media were probing into the nuts and the bolts of terrorist onslaught on innocent, mostly elderly, citizens of Urumqi, in the same week suppression of civil rights demonstrations by peaceful Uyghur protesters at Alaqagha township in Aksu prefecture's Kucha county went almost unnoticed.

   • 2020 June 18, “China expressed strong opposition over US' Uighur Human Rights bill”, in The New Indian Express‎^[6], archived from the original on June 18, 2020:

     Uighur Muslim women visit a market in Alaqagha in western China's Xinjiang province in July.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Alaqagha.
2. (historical) A village in Alaqagha, Kuqa, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang, China.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Alahage

Translations

town; former village

• Bengali: আলাকাগা (alakaga)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿拉哈格 (Ālāhāgé)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: ئالاقاغا (alaqagha)