Kuqa
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Kuqa
- A county-level city in Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang, China, formerly a county
- 1989, Colin Thubron, Under Marching OrdersThe Silk Road: Beyond the Celestial Kingdom[1], Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 15:
- From here the Silk Road bifurcates. In times of unrest, the caravans would move south through the sparse towns along the foot of the Kunlum Mountains, protected from robbers by the Taklimakan desert. But more often they would brave the great northern route with its line of rich oases - Turfan, Korla, Kuqa, Aksu - and hope to evade marauders from the grasslands just to the north.
- 2010, J. Todd Reed and Diana Raschke, The ETIM: China's Islamic Militants and the Global Terrorist Threat[2], Praeger, page 149:
- Under his instruction, Yasin Molla Memet and a dozen other followers in the Chinese territory broke into the homes of Kawul Tika and three other villagers in Kunas Village of Alahag Township, Kuqa County, Xinjiang, on April 29, 1996, killing four villagers and injured[sic – meaning injuring] thee others with explosives, guns and knives.
- 2018, “Driverless tractors ease burden of Chinese cotton farmers”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency[3]:
- Three driverless tractors were at work on a three-hectare demonstration cotton field in Kuqa County, Aksu Prefecture, ploughing, raking, seeding, fertilizing, and even mulching all by themselves.