"Cherchen" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1887, General N. M. Prjevalsky, “On new Species of Central-Asian Birds”, in E. Delmar Morgan, transl., The Ibis, volume 5, page 417",
          "text": "This species-named by me after my travelling companion P. P. Teleschow, senior subaltern of the Trans-Baikalian Cossacks, who prepared the skins of all specimens obtained on my fourth journey, and actively cooperated in the general work of the expedition- frequents the mountainous border of Northern Tibet, in the region between the gorges of the Cherchen and Khoten, i.e., the newly discovered Russian range and that of Keria.",
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          "ref": "2008 November 18, Edward Wong, “The Dead Tell a Tale China Doesn’t Care to Listen To”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 2020-10-20",
          "text": "Mr. Mair first spotted one of the mummies, a red-haired corpse called the Cherchen Man, in the back room of a museum in Urumqi while leading a tour of Americans there in 1988, the first year the mummies were put on display.[...]\nOf the hundreds of mummies discovered, there are some that are East Asian, but they are not as ancient as the Loulan Beauty or the Cherchen Man.",
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          "ref": "2020 August 21, Asim Kashgarian, “China Video Ad Calls for 100 Uighur Women to ‘Urgently’ Marry Han Men”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 2021-09-29",
          "text": "Reports about China's promoting intermarriage between Uighurs and Han Chinese go back to as early as August 2014 when local authorities in Cherchen county of Xinjiang announced, “Incentive Measures Encouraging Uighur-Chinese Intermarriage.”",
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        "Alternative form of Qarqan"
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      "enpr": "chěrchěnʹ"
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