Sai-t'u-la

See also: Saitula

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 賽圖拉 / 赛图拉 (Sàitúlā) Wade–Giles romanization: Sai⁴-tʻu²-la¹.

Proper noun

Sai-t'u-la

  1. Alternative form of Saitula (Xaidulla)
    • 1958 March 1 [1957 September], “Natural and Economic Geography of Tarim Basin, Sinkiang”, in Weekly Information Report on Communist China, number 198, Central Intelligence Agency, →OCLC, page 115:
      The transportation routes connecting Yarkand with foreign countries are a road leading northwest via Su-lo to USSR, a road leading west via P'u-li to Afghanistan and Central Asian countries, and a road leading south via Sai-t'u-la and over the Kara Kunlun Mountain Pass (at 5,569 meters above sea level) to Leh in Kashmir.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.