Bortala
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Mongolian ᠪᠣᠷᠣᠲᠠᠯᠠ (borotal-a).
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Bortala
- A Mongol autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang, China.
- 1998, Linda Benson, Ingvar Svanberg, China's Last Nomads[1], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 201:
- Overall, trade via the new ports of entry on the Xinjiang-Kazakstani border expanded tremendously in the first five years. Six of the new ports are by road: They include[...]The most important route, however, is the railway link that crosses the Chinese-Kazakstani border at Alataw (Ala Shankou), in the Bortala-Mongol Autonomous Prefecture.
- 2015 December 24, Ben Blanchard, “Minority report: Chinese official 'faked family's ethnicity'”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters[2], archived from the original on 19 June 2022, World News[3]:
- The ruling Communist Party’s graft-fighting Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said that Guo Xiangyi, who was a senior official in Xinjiang’s Bortala region, abused his power, took bribes and expropriated land.
Guo, likely a Han Chinese judging by his name, also “faked and changed the ethnicity of his wife and child”, the statement said, without giving details.
While the Uighurs, a Muslim people who speak a Turkic language, are the main minority in Xinjiang, Bortala is home to a large number of ethnic Mongols.
- 2017 June 18, Edward Wong, “Mongolian Warriors and Communist Soldiers: A Frontier Town in China”, in The New York Times[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-06-19, Asia Pacific[5]:
- Wenquan is part of the Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, the base of the Chahar in Xinjiang. (Their ancestral home is in present-day Inner Mongolia, where the majority of Chahar in China live.) The prefecture is one of several scattered enclaves that arose from Qing-era garrisons.
Translations[edit]
Mongol autonomous prefecture