Wu-lu-mu-ch'i en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- wo͞oʹlo͞oʹmo͞oʹchēʹ
Etymology
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 烏魯木齊 /乌鲁木齐 (Wūlǔmùqí) Wade-Giles romanization: Wu¹-lu³-mu⁴-chʻi².
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Wulumuqi (Ürümqi)
alt of Wulumuqi
At the signing of the Treaty of Tarbagatai, the Chinese told the Russians that Muslims had taken Wu-lu-mu-ch’i (Urumchi) and were preparing to move on Tarbagatai and Ili (Kuldja).
1996, S. C. M. Paine, “Capitulation: The Treaty of Peking”, in Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 91:It is officially known as the Sinkiang Uigur Autonomous Region and is also called Chinese Turkistan or Eastern Turkistan. The capital is Wu-lu-mu-ch'i.[...]Sinkiang is now linked to the Chinese rail network, but west and south of Wu-lu-mu-ch'i transportation is still concentrated along two ancient roads: the north road, which skirts the southern edge of the Dzungaria and connects Wu-lu-mu-ch'i with the Soviet Turkistan-Siberia RR, and the south road, which encircles the Tarim basin.
1979, “Sin·kiang”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 714:Most remote from sea The large town most remote from the sea is Wu-lu-mu-ch’i (formerly Ürümqi) in Xinjiang, the capital of China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, at a distance of about 1,500 miles from the nearest coastline. Its population was estimated to be 1,060,000 in late 1987.
1992, “Political and Social”, in Donald McFarlan, editor, The Guinness Book of Records 1992, Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 204: