"Bortala" meaning in English

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Proper name

Etymology: Borrowed from Mongolian ᠪᠣᠷᠣᠲᠠᠯ᠎ᠠ (borotal-a). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|mn|ᠪᠣᠷᠣᠲᠠᠯ᠎ᠠ}} Mongolian ᠪᠣᠷᠣᠲᠠᠯ᠎ᠠ (borotal-a) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Bortala
  1. A Mongol autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang, China. Wikipedia link: Bortala Categories (place): Places in China, Places in Xinjiang Translations (Mongol autonomous prefecture): 博爾塔拉 (Chinese Mandarin), 博尔塔拉 (Bó'ěrtǎlā) (Chinese Mandarin), ボルタラ (Borutara) (Japanese), ᠪᠣᡵᠣ ᡨᠠᠯᠠ (boro tala) (Manchu), ᠪᠣᠷᠣᠲᠠᠯ᠎ᠠ (borotal-a) (Mongolian)
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          "text": "Urumchi Sinkiang Regional Service in Mandarin at 1300 GMT on 30 October reports that 143d Regimental Farm in Shihhotze Prefecture develops forestry. The same broadcasts reports that 84th Regimental Farm in Poerhtala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture restores award system in efforts to promote animal husbandry.",
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          "text": "Overall, trade via the new ports of entry on the Xinjiang-Kazakstani border expanded tremendously in the first five years. Six of the new ports are by road: They include[...]The most important route, however, is the railway link that crosses the Chinese-Kazakstani border at Alataw (Ala Shankou), in the Bortala-Mongol Autonomous Prefecture.",
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          "text": "The ruling Communist Party’s graft-fighting Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said that Guo Xiangyi, who was a senior official in Xinjiang’s Bortala region, abused his power, took bribes and expropriated land.\nGuo, likely a Han Chinese judging by his name, also “faked and changed the ethnicity of his wife and child”, the statement said, without giving details.\nWhile the Uighurs, a Muslim people who speak a Turkic language, are the main minority in Xinjiang, Bortala is home to a large number of ethnic Mongols.",
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          "text": "Wenquan is part of the Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, the base of the Chahar in Xinjiang. (Their ancestral home is in present-day Inner Mongolia, where the majority of Chahar in China live.) The prefecture is one of several scattered enclaves that arose from Qing-era garrisons.",
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