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Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Why is the city name Chinese? Its name is Kuldja. Just because China controls XinJiang doesn't mean we should HAN-ify everything.+
Because Yining is the modern ENGLISHCOMMONNAME and the page is located at that namespace. You could petition to move the page to Gulja (not Kuldja) but personally I'd be against it. If the city is known as anything else in English, thanks to the Russo-Chinese incidents over it in the 19th century it's still Ili and not either of present ones. That said, a modern American or British traveler in 'Shinjang' looking for 'Gulja' would be reading guidebooks and talking to each other about 'Xinjiang' and 'Yining'. — LlywelynII09:43, 24 May 2013 (UTC)Reply
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