Turpan

• Turfan

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Turpan

1. A prefecture-level city in Xinjiang, China
   • 1909, John Stuart Thomson, The Chinese‎, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 371:

     In a corner of Mongolia near Turkestan, at Turpan, in an excavation, old boots have been found which were repaired with kid palimpsests of the third century, A. D., — a literal example of the truth marching into benighted Cathay.

   • 1990, Stanley K. Abe, Art and Practice in a Fifth-century Chinese Buddhist Cave Temple (Ars Orientalis)‎, volume 20, page 5:

     Incomplete remains from the Central Asian sites of Endere in the region of Khotan and Gaochang outside Turpan suggest that similar types of pillars were constructed in Central Asia (Figs. 20 and 21).

   • 2008, James Cuno, Who Owns Antiquity?‎, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:

     The elite, primarily Buddhist, Turkic society centered in the south around Turpan became known as Uyghuristan from 932 to 1450, to distinguish it from the Muslim Türks living in the western parts of Xinjiang.

   • 2021 May 27, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities Detain Uyghur Woman Who Intervened in Domestic Dispute”, in Radio Free Asia‎, archived from the original on May 27, 2021:

     While investigating the detentions of women in the XUAR, where authorities are believed to have held up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in a network of internment camps since early 2017, RFA’s Uyghur Service spoke with a police officer in the prefecture-level city of Turpan (in Chinese, Tulufan) who volunteered that a village elder named Zaytunhan Ismail had recently been arrested.
     “I believe it was around January … it’s been quite a while now,” the officer from Turpan’s Chatqal township said of the 67-year-old Ismail.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Turpan.

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Tulufan, T'u-lu-fan

• “Turpan, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• unpart, unrapt, untrap