Definition of "Tacheng"
Tacheng
proper noun
A prefecture of Xinjiang, China.
Quotations
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.
2005 June 11, Donald G. McNeil Jr., “New Asian Flu Outbreaks in China Raise Fears of a Mutant Virus”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2015-05-29
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
2010, Judd Kinzley, “Turning Prospectors into Settlers: Gold, Immigrant Miners and the Settlement of the Frontier in Late Qing Xinjiang”, in Sherman Cochran, Paul G. Pickowicz, editors, China on the Margins, Cornell University East Asia Program, page 17
According to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisal, the day before her disappearance, Munira went to the Ghulja city Public Security Bureau, where she requested permission to videochat with her husband, who is serving his sentence in Shiho (Wusu) city, in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture’s Tarbaghatay (Tacheng) prefecture. The police reportedly denied her request.
2021 April 7, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Wife of Jailed Uyghur Taxi Driver Jailed For Weeping in Front of a Foreigner”, in Uyghur Service, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 07 April 2021