Tatrang

• Tatran

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Tatrang

1. A town in Qiemo, Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang, China, formerly a township.
   • 1920, Rustichello da Pisa, translated by Henry Yule, edited by Henri Cordier, The Travels of Marco Polo‎, →OCLC:

     Grenard says (pp. 183-184) that he examined the remains of what is called the old town of Charchan, traces of the ancient canal, ruins of dwellings deep into the sand, of which the walls built of large and solid-baked bricks, are pretty well preserved. Save these bricks, "I found hardly anything, the inhabitants have pillaged everything long ago. I attempted some excavating, which turned out to be without result, as far as I was concerned; but the superstitious natives declared that they were the cause of a violent storm which took place soon after. There are similar ruins in the environs, at Yantak Koudouk, at Tatrang, one day's march to the north, and at Ouadjchahari at five days to the north-east, which corresponds to the position assigned to Lop by Marco Polo." (See Grenard's Haute Asie on Nia.)

   • 2004, China Tourism‎, numbers 287-292, →OCLC, page 83:

     Then we drove on the November 16 northwards and entered the desert at the oil camp of Tatrang. A mere 15 km into the desert, we started to see nothing but hundreds of dead poplar trees of many centuries old, […]

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• Tatirang
• T'a-t'a-lang

• Grattan

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• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒtrɒŋɡ]
• Hyphenation: Tat‧rang
• Rhymes: -ɒŋɡ

Tatrang

1. Tărlung (a river in Brașov and Covasna County, Transylvania, Romania, a left tributary of the Râul Negru)
2. Tărlungeni (a village in Brașov County, Romania)