Tacheng

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Etymology: From Mandarin 塔城 (Tǎchéng).

1. A prefecture of the Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

   “More than 13,000 geese were destroyed in Tacheng, in the Xinjiang autonomous region, after about 500 died of H5N1 avian flu, China's Agriculture Ministry reported.”

   “Late on the night of August 26, 1855, an inferno raged through the Russian trade concession in the Qing frontier town of Tacheng.[…] In 1766, less than ten years after the conquest of Xinjiang, Qing forces founded a small outpost on the farthest western edge of their rapidly expanding new empire. They named it Suijingcheng, or "Pacification Town," a name that reflected an ongoing reality in this volatile region, as attempts to pacify this newly conquered area would occupy officials and administrators for much of the next two centuries. But the nature of this process of pacification in this isolated settlement, which in later years would come to be known as Tacheng, evolved over time”

2. A county-level city of Tacheng prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

   “The Daur minority is another Mongolian-speaking group, most of whom live near the town of Tacheng (Qochek), near the Kazakstan border.”

   “Snowstorms in the Tacheng city in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have brought lows of minus 25 degrees Celsius.”