Kuqa

kuqa English Kuqa County thumb|Map including K'U-CH'E (KUQA) (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1985) Alternative forms en Kucha Proper noun en county-level city prefecture/Aksu ar/Xinjiang c/China formerly a county. en 1989 w:Colin Thubron The Silk Road: Beyond the Celestial Kingdom https://archive.org/details/silkroadbeyondce00thub/ w:Simon and Schuster 0-671-70175-4 89-21809 260156000 15 https://archive.org/details/silkroadbeyondce00thub/page/15/ From here the Silk Road bifurcates. In times of unrest, the caravans would move south through the sparse towns along the foot of the Kunlum Mountains, protected from robbers by the Taklimakan desert. But more often they would brave the great northern route with its line of rich oases - Turfan, Korla, Kuqa, Aksu - and hope to evade marauders from the grasslands just to the north. en 2004 Treasures of China https://archive.org/details/treasuresofchina0000unse/ w:Reader's Digest 0-7621-0565-8 2004051061 859079833 22609861M 96 https://archive.org/details/treasuresofchina0000unse/page/96/ The Kizi Kuqa Beacon TowerStanding 6 mi. (10 km) west of Kuqa County, this ancient watchtower—or the weather-beaten remains of it—was one of many built along the southern arm of the Silk Road to protect traveling merchants and emissaries from bandits. en 2010 J. Todd Reed; Diana Raschke The ETIM: China's Islamic Militants and the Global Terrorist Threat https://archive.org/details/etimchinasislami00reed/ Praeger 613324636 149 https://archive.org/details/etimchinasislami00reed/page/n159/ Under his instruction, Yasin Molla Memet and a dozen other followers in the Chinese territory broke into the homes of Kawul Tika and three other villagers in Kunas Village of Alahag Township, Kuqa County, Xinjiang, on April 29, 1996, killing four villagers and injuredinjuring three others with explosives, guns and knives. en 2018 Benoy K Behl China and Mongolia Buddhism: The Path of Compassion https://archive.org/details/buddhismpathofco00beno/ Publications Division (India) Publications Division 978-81-230-2788-3 1046213275 194 https://archive.org/details/buddhismpathofco00beno/page/194/ In the north-west of Kuqa County, in a ravine, is the site of the 47 Kizilgaha Caves. This is one of the large groups of Buddhist caves in China. en Synonyms from Uyghur en Kuchar from Mandarin Chinese en Kuche, en K'u-ch'e en Kuča Translations county-level city Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 庫車 Kùchē Japanese: ja Korean: ko Manchu: mnc ᡴᡠᠴᡝ Polish: pl Kucza f Uyghur: ug كۇچار Further reading Kuqa, Kuche, K'u-ch'e, Ku-che, Kuchar en 1998 Kuqa Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1632 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1632/ 2 Also appears as Kuche.