Dabancheng
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade-Giles) Ta-pan-ch'eng
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 達坂城／达坂城 (Dábǎnchéng).
Proper noun
Dabancheng
- A district of Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China.
- 1993, Judy Bonavia, The Silk Road From Xi'an to Kashgar, Passport Books, NTC Publishing Group, →ISBN, LCCN 93-83190, OCLC 611569895, page 212:
- Beyond a large salt lake is the town of Dabancheng, where buses sometimes stop at the lively Peasant-Farmers Market. The ladies of old Dabancheng were made famous by an Uygur folksong praising their beautiful long plaits. Beyond the town are the ruins of a fort built in 1870 by Yakub Beg of Kashgar and destroyed soon after by the Qing- dynasty army that was sent to put down the rebellion.
From Dabancheng the road begins its descent into the Turpan Depression, leaving the railway and weaving through the rocky White Poplar Gully.
- 2010, Neil Morris, The Energy Mix, Mankato, MN: Smart Apple Media, →ISBN, LCCN 2008053326, OCLC 757760408, page 29:
- At Dabancheng, in Xinjiang province in the northwest, China is building a wind farm that could one day be the largest in the world. Chinese wind engineers are calling it the “Three Gorges of the sky” after the dam.
Translations
district of Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China
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