T'a-ch'eng

See also: Tacheng, and Tǎchéng

English

Map including T'A-CH'ENG (TACHENG) (DMA, 1985)

Etymology

From Mandarin 塔城 (Tǎchéng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻa³-chʻeng².

Proper noun

T'a-ch'eng

1. Alternative form of Tacheng
   • 1973, Edward Evans-Pritchard, “China (including Tibet) Japan and Korea”, in Peoples of the Earth‎^[1], volume 13, Italy: Danbury Press, →LCCN, page 137:

     The Daghor (also known as Dagur, Daur, Ta-kuan-erb, Ta-hu-erh) live in Tsi-Tsi-har Municipality and Fu-yu County in Heilungkiang, and scattered in Mo-li-ta-wa Daghor Autonomous Banner, Pu-t'e-ha Banner, O-wen-k'o Autonomous Banner in Inner Mongolia, T'a-ch'eng County in Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region, northern China.

   • 1974, D. J. Dwyer, China Now‎^[2], DLongman Group Ltd, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 275:

     The Cho-lo-ssu pastured their flocks in the I-li Valley; the Durbot occupied the Kurgis River drainage in the southwestern Altai; the Turgut occupied the T'a-ch'eng (Tarbagatai) region, and the Hosht occupied the Urumchi region.

   • 1987, Arthur C. Hasiotis, Jr., Soviet Political, Economic, and Military Involvement in Sinkiang from 1928 to 1949‎^[3], Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 62:

     There is general agreement that his military forces were organized into six divisions. They were stationed at the following places: at Ti-hua under the command of Liu Hsi-tsen, at T'a-ch'eng under Chiang Sung-lin, at Ili under Niu Shih, at A-shan under Wei Chen-kuo, at A-k'o-su under Chang Tzu-t'ing, and at Ko-shih-ko-erh (Kashgar) nominally under Tsou-ying, but in reality under Chin's brother, Chin Shu-chih.

   • 1994, Patrick Bridgemon, “Nixon Removes an Embargo on Trade with China”, in Frank N. Magill, editor, Great Events from History II‎^[4], volume 4, Salem Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1480:

     Until 1956, geologists considered China as a nation poor in petroleum resources. In that year, oil was discovered in T'a-ch'eng. China soon had enough oil to meet its needs, with surplus oil available for export.

Translations

Tacheng — see Tacheng

Further reading

• “T’a-ch’eng or Chu·gu·chak”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas‎^[5], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 751, column 1

Anagrams

• Ch'ang-te