Niya

niya nîya niyə níyá English Niya County thumb|MIN-FENG (NIYA BAZAR) (from the International Map of the World, 1971) Etymology From en ug نىيە. Pronunciation nēyä′Niya or Niya Bazar 1329 2 Proper noun en county prefecture/Hotan autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China. en 1979 w:Jan Myrdal Ann Hening The Silk Road: A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili through Sinkiang and Kansu https://archive.org/details/silkroad00janm/ New York Pantheon Books 0-394-48231-X 78-51796 611149389 4740902M 160 https://archive.org/details/silkroad00janm/page/160/ There are 616 party members in the Niya county; 532 are Uighur. The Youth League here has 1,175 members; 1,035 are Uighur. I am the secretary of the party committee; four of the seven members are Uighur. en https://archive.org/details/china00pete/ 1997 China the Silk Routes Peter Neville-Hadley w:Cadogan Guides w:Globe Pequot Press 1-86011-052-5 37712573 306 https://archive.org/details/china00pete/page/306/ There's also a bus from Khotan which stays overnight at Niya and starts at about 7.30am, but not every day. On a good day Charchan is 307km, 7½ hours, and ¥20 away. On a bad one it's ¥33 ($4) and 12 hours, depending on who's selling the ticket and the state of the bus. en 2012 Simon Foster; Candice Lee; Jen Lin-Liu; Beth Reiber; Tini Tran; Lee Wing-sze; Christopher D. Winnan Frommer's China https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781118094198/ w:Frommer's Hoboken, NJ w:John Wiley & Sons 5th 978-1-118-09419-8 766322081 329 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781118094198/page/329/ These buses stop at the oasis towns of Keriya (Yutian; 177km/110 miles; 3 hr.; ¥25), Niya (Minfeng; 294km/182 miles; 5 hr.; ¥55), and Charchan (Qiemo; 603km/374 miles; 8-10 hr.; ¥105-¥147). en JUNE 22, 2015 Ben Blanchard Exiles angered as China holds beer festival in Muslim county Paul Tait https://web.archive.org/web/20190817002725/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ramadan-china/exiles-angered-as-china-holds-beer-festival-in-muslim-county-idUSKBN0P20L620150622 17 August 2019 w:Reuters Emerging Markets The beer festival happened in a village in Niya County in the deep south of Xinjiang, which is overwhelmingly populated by the Muslim Uighur people who call Xinjiang home. Muslims are not meant to consume alcohol, according to the Koran. en 2015 https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/chinese-authorities-ban-muslim-names-among-uyghurs-in-hotan-09242015120656.html Chinese Authorities Ban Muslim Names Among Uyghurs in Hotan Roseanne Gerin; reporter Eset Sulaiman Eset Sulaiman w:Radio Free Asia A Uyghur woman named Turakhan who lives in a suburban village of Niya (in Chinese, Minfeng) county in Hotan (Hetian) prefecture told RFA’s Uyghur Service on Wednesday that the village chief and police had informed all residents about “the list of forbidden Muslim names.” https://web.archive.org/web/20260906181155/https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/chinese-authorities-ban-muslim-names-among-uyghurs-in-hotan-09242015120656.html 6 September 2026 en en town county/Minfeng prefecture/Hotan autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China. en 1923 https://archive.org/details/1923MemoirOnMapsOfChineseTurkistanBySteinS/ Memoir on Maps of Chinese Turkistan and Kansu from the Surveys Made during Sir Aurel Stein's Explorations w:Aurel Stein Trigonometrical Survey Office Dehra Dun 43 In the south, the border of the Taklamakān lies along the nothern ends of the oases, mostly small, which line at intervals the foot of the K'un-lun glacis from Karghalik to Niya (Sheets Nos. 6, 9, 14, 19). en 2014 zh:于尚平<t:Yu Shangping> The Diversity of Xinjiang https://archive.org/details/diversityofxinji0000shan/ Beijing China Intercontinental Press (zh 五洲传播出版社) 978-7-5085-2857-1 1035209763 173 https://archive.org/details/diversityofxinji0000shan/page/173/ Jiapaer Sadik MazarThe mazar built on the pretext of the Shia Imam of the sixth generation Jiapaer Sadik, which is also called “Minfeng Grand Mazar”, is located in Niya Town of Minfeng County with an unknown building time. en en township county/Minfeng prefecture/Hotan autonomous region/Xinjiang c/China. Synonyms from Mandarin Chinese county en Minfeng, en Min-feng Translations county in Hotan, Xinjiang, China; town in Minfeng, Hotan, Xinjiang, China; township in Minfeng, Hotan, Xinjiang, China Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 尼雅 Níyǎ Gandhari: pgd Caḍ́ota Japanese: ja Uyghur: ug نىيە References Further reading Niya en 1998 MingfengMinfeng 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 1990 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1990/ 1 Also called Niya. Also appears as Minfeng. Anagrams en ainy ayin ʿayin en 2-syllable words Japanese Romanization にや