Qira

qira English Qira County thumb|Map including QIRA (TS'E-LE) (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1980) Alternative forms en Chira Etymology Borrowed from en ug چىرا. Pronunciation chēräen 1952 Chira or Chira Bazar Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 400 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/400/ 1 Proper noun en county prefecture/Hotan autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China. en 1989 lw:zh:车慕奇<t:Che Muqi> Visit to an Ancient City Buried in the Desert zh:丝绸之路今昔<t:The Silk Road, Past and Present> https://archive.org/details/silkroadpastpres0000chem/ Beijing w:Foreign Languages Press 0-8351-2100-3 717480364 293 https://archive.org/details/silkroadpastpres0000chem/page/293/ Newly Discovered Relics in the Desert Passing through Qira County on our way, we were asked to stay by Wang Yijun, Director of the Office of the County Party Committee. He said he was an amateur archaeologist and an old acquaintance of Li Yuchun’s. In 1978 the two men had gone together to the desert in northern Qira County to survey a buried ancient city. en 2001 Wenjiang Liu; Mingting Liu Dov Pasternak; Arnold Schlissel Reversing Desertification with Tamarix in China Combating Desertification with Plants https://archive.org/details/combatingdeserti0000unse/ 0-306-46632-5 2001041334 901912800 310 https://archive.org/details/combatingdeserti0000unse/page/310/ Tamarix forests not only effectively control local sand movement, wind erosion and disasters caused by wind-blown sand, but can also stop sand grains brought by the wind. For example, on the 3333.3 hectacres of planted Tamarix forest at the outer Qira Oasis with 60-70% coverage, the annual sand-blocking amount can reach 700,000 m³. When the wind passes through a Tamarix forest, besides blocking sand, the twigs and leaves of the trees also obstruct the passage of the dust in the air, improving the health situation of humans and livestock. For example, when the wind velocity is 15 m/s, the dust content at 2m height is 1/18 of the content measured at the same height in the outer oasis (observed at Qira County in 1987). en town county/Qira prefecture/Hotan autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China. en township county/Qira prefecture/Hotan autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China. Synonyms from Mandarin Chinese en Cele, en Tselo, en Ts'e-lo, en Ts'e-le Translations county in Hotan, Xinjiang, China Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 策勒 Cèlè Japanese: ja Uyghur: ug چىرا References Further reading Qira en 1998 Qira Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2547 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2547/ 3 Anagrams en aiqr Iraq qari riq'a