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Sai-t'u-la
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Saitula
English
Etymology
From en cmn 賽圖拉 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Sai⁴-tʻu²-la¹.
Proper noun
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en Saitula (Xaidulla)
en 1 March 1958 1957 September Natural and Economic Geography of Tarim Basin, Sinkiang Weekly Information Report on Communist China 198 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924106849312&seq=383 w:Central Intelligence Agency 268792673 115 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924106849312&seq=615 The transportation routes connecting Yarkand with foreign countries are a road leading northwest via Su-lo to USSR, a road leading west via P'u-li to Afghanistan and Central Asian countries, and a road leading south via Sai-t'u-la and over the Kara Kunlun Mountain Pass (at 5,569 meters above sea level) to Leh in Kashmir.