Tulufan

alternative T'u-lu-fan

1. Synonym of Turfan: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

   The Tulufan basin has well-developed source, reservoir, and trapping conditions, and early formed structures. These make it a favorable area for oil and gas accumulation and enrichment.

   1986, Michel T. Halbouty, editor, Future Petroleum Provinces of the World, Tulsa, OK: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, →ISBN, page 511

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   Tulufan or Turfan and Fayuan or Kucheng lie to the east of the capital. Hami, an oasis in the desert, is yet nearer the eastern boundary of the province and is an important post on the chief road into China proper.

   1913, Thomas Cochrane, “Chapter XXI.”, in Survey of the Missionary Occupation of China, Shanghai: Christian Literature Society for China, →OCLC, page 332

   While investigating the detentions of women in the XUAR, where authorities are believed to have held up to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in a network of internment camps since early 2017, RFA’s Uyghur Service spoke with a police officer in the prefecture-level city of Turpan (in Chinese, Tulufan) who volunteered that a village elder named Zaytunhan Ismail had recently been arrested. “I believe it was around January … it’s been quite a while now,” the officer from Turpan’s Chatqal township said of the 67-year-old Ismail.

   2021 May 27, Shohret Hoshur, Joshua Lipes, “Xinjiang Authorities Detain Uyghur Woman Who Intervened in Domestic Dispute”, in Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 27 May 2021

   Synonyms: Turfan