Uzbel
English
Map including Uzbel Shankou / Wu-tzu-pieh-li Shan-k'ou (DMA, 1988)
Etymology
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Proper noun
Uzbel
- A mountain pass on the border between Akto, Kizilsu prefecture, Xinjiang, China and Murghob district, Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan.
- 1877 February 1, Michell, Robert, “THE RUSSIAN EXPEDITION TO THE ALAI AND PAMIR IN 1876”, in The Geographical Magazine, volume 4, OCLC 561355499, page 49:
- After having travelled along the Ala-Baital defile, and followed the course of the Uzbel-Su, the party reached the Uzbel Pass, which separates the basin of the Kara-Kul from that of the Sary-Kol and Tarun-Gol.[...]The late M. Fedchenko disputed the existence of a meridional range on the east side of the Pamir, saying that Hayward had simply taken the abrupt side of the Pamir for a transverse mountain-range. Captain Kostenko, on the other hand, was impressed with its grandeur. It lies about 53 miles from the Uzbel Pass, and beyond it lies Kashghar, 40 miles further.[...]Through lack of provisions, Captain Kostenko was unable to push on to the Sary-Kol and compelled to return by the Uzbel Pass and the little Chon-Su defile. On emerging from thence, one comes upon a point where three roads converge—one to Badakhshan, one to Kokand (over the Kizyl-Yart), and the other to Kash- ghar (over the Uzbel Pass). The main force of the Alai column was rejoined at Archa-bulak, at the southern base of the Alai range. The whole distance marched by Captain Kostenko’s force, from the mouth of the Kizyl-Yart defile to the Uzbel Pass, was 90 miles.
- 1896, Curzon, George N., The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus, OCLC 25060942, OL 6952632M, page 51:
- In 1876 Kostenko, from the Uzbel Pass, observed a great peak in this direction, the name of which was given to him as Mustagh Ata, i.e. Father of Ice Mountains.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Uzbel.
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Synonyms
- Kyzyl-Dzhiik
Translations
mountain pass on the China-Tajikistan border
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Anagrams
- Zebul