Xaidulla
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Uyghur شەيدۇللا (sheydulla), ultimately from Arabic شَهِيدُ اللّٰه (šahīdu allāh, literally “witness of God”).
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Xaidulla
- A town in Pishan, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
- [1977, John Keay, Explorers of the Western Himalayas, 1820-1895[1], published 1996, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 202:
- Thus, embittered and with his career in crisis, Johnson had spent the last season, 1864, rounding off his work in the north-eastern corner of Ladakh. In the process he had again beaten his own world altitude record by reaching a point 23,000 feet above sea level. He had also crossed the Karakoram pass and continued for three days towards Yarkand before turning back. At the time the Maharaja of Kashmir, without apparently consulting the British, had established an advance garrison well beyond the pass at a place called Shahidulla. This excursion of Johnson’s was therefore safe enough and though his survey work there was rather haphazard, he was not censured for crossing the frontier.]
- 1991, Jeremy Schmidt, Himalayan Passage[2], Seattle: The Mountaineers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 119:
- The next day we came to Xaidulla, a cluster of walled compounds, old buildings made of mud brick, new ones of concrete, a few bushes, but mostly a road stop filled with blue trucks driven by Uighurs from Kashgar and Urumqi.
- 2000, Atsushi Kanamaru, editor, Mapping the Tibetan World[3], 1st edition, Kotan Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 158:
- Mazar to Dahongliutan [256km] - From Mazar (3,790m) it takes around 9 hours by truck. At Xaidulla there is only a Daoban (Road Maintenance Depot). On the northern side of the river, the old-looking fortress is actually a relatively new structure built during the Kuomintang (Nationalists) Government period.
- 2011, Bradley Mayhew, Michael Kohn, Daniel McCrohan, Tibet[4], 8th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 355:
- The road turns east and climbs over the Kirgizjangal Pass (kilometre marker 09; 4930m) to the large village of Xaidulla (Sài Túlā; kilometre marker 363; 3700m), the largest town en route.
- 2015, Christopher Snedden, Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris[5], Hurst & Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page [6]:
- Ranbir also had possibly wanted to expand his territory into the fertile Shahidulla (Xaidulla) area of Sinkiang, located north-east of J&K beyond the Karakorams and accessed via the Shimshal Pass, ‘the Gateway to Hunza’.
Synonyms[edit]
- (from Mandarin Chinese) Saitula, Sai-t'u-la