Wu-ch'ia

English

Map including Wuqia Wu-ch'ia (DMA, 1983)

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 烏恰／乌恰 (Wūqià), Wade-Giles romanization: Wu¹-chʻia⁴.

Proper noun

Wu-ch'ia

1. Alternative form of Wuqia (“Ulugqat”)
   • 1965 July, “SASANIAN”, in Numismatic Literature‎^[1], number 72, →OCLC, page 631:

     The most important find, from Wu-chʻia (Sinkiang) in the Pamir region, consisted of thirteen gold bars and 947 silver coins, including 567 issues of Chosroes II and 281 of the Arab governors.

   • 1998, Jonathan Karam Skaff, “Sasanian and Arab-Sasanian Silver Coins from Turfan: Their Relationship to International Trade and the Local Economy”, in Asia Major (3)‎^[2], volume 11, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 83:

     A large hoard was found in the late 1950s in modern Wu-chʻia 烏恰 county (Ulugqat), which is west of Kashgar. It was in an uninhabited area on a path that passes through the Pamir Mountains from the Farghānah Valley to Kashgar. The hoard evidently belonged to a merchant who was forced to hide it in an emergency. It has never been properly studied and I was unable to gain access to it at the Sinkiang Museum. The archaeologist who wrote the published description of the find was not a trained numismatist. He reported that the hoard was made up of silver coins and gold bars, and that there were 947 silver Sasanian and Arab-Sasanian coins that weighed a total of 3,800 grams. Many of the coins appear to have been countermarked. Also found were thirteen crudely manufactured gold bars with a total weight of 1,330 grams; Li Yü-chʻun 李遇春, "Hsin-chiang Wu-chʻia hsien fa-hsien chin-ťʻiao ho ta-pʻi Po-ssu yin-pi" 新疆烏恰縣發現金條和大批波斯銀幣, KK 9 (1959), pp. 482-83.

Translations

Wuqia — see Wuqia