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}} | settlement_type = County | official_name = | image_skyline = | image_alt = | image_caption = | image_flag = | flag_alt = | image_seal = | seal_alt = | image_shield = | shield_alt = | nickname = | motto = | image_map = Location_of_Qitai_within_Xinjiang_(China).png | map_caption = Location of Qitai (pink) in Changji Prefecture (yellow) and Xinjiang | map_alt = | pushpin_map =Xinjiang | pushpin_label =Qitai | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption =Location in Xinjiang | latd = 44 |latm = 01 |lats = |latNS = N | longd = 89 |longm = 35 |longs = |longEW = E | coor_pinpoint = | coordinates_type = type:adm3rd_region:CN-65 | coordinates_display = inline,title | coordinates_footnotes = | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = People's Republic of China | subdivision_type1 = Region | subdivision_name1 = Xinjiang | subdivision_type2 = Autonomous prefecture | subdivision_name2 = Changji | subdivision_type3 = Township-level divisions | subdivision_name3 = 6 towns 6 townships 3 ethnic townships | subdivision_type4 = | subdivision_name4 = | established_title = | established_date = | founder = | seat_type = County seat | seat = Qitai Town (奇台镇) | government_footnotes = | leader_party = | leader_title = | leader_name = | unit_pref = Metric | area_footnotes = | area_urban_footnotes = | area_rural_footnotes = | area_metro_footnotes = | area_magnitude = | area_note = | area_water_percent = | area_rank = | area_blank1_title = | area_blank2_title = | area_total_km2 = 16641 | area_land_km2 = | area_water_km2 = | area_urban_km2 = | area_rural_km2 = | area_metro_km2 = | area_blank1_km2 = | area_blank2_km2 = | length_km = | width_km = | dimensions_footnotes = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | population_footnotes = | population_total = 230000 | population_as_of = | population_density_km2 = auto | population_demonym = | population_note = | timezone1 = China Standard | utc_offset1 = +8 | postal_code_type =Postal code | postal_code = | area_code_type = | area_code = 0994 | iso_code = | website = | footnotes = }} Qitai County (; Xiao'erjing: ٿِتَیْ ﺷِﯿًﺎ; ), historically known as Gucheng (古城), is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China under the administration of the Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture. It covers an area of and had a population of 230,000. Qitai County's county seat is in Qitai Town. Gucheng Township is nearby. ==History== Located on one of the main routes of the Silk Road, the old Gucheng (often referred in the European writing of the past as "Ku Ch'eng-tze" etc., using Wade-Giles or Postal Romanization systems), was the western terminal for one of the caravan routes across the Gobi Desert. Owen Lattimore in ''The Desert Road to Turkestan'' leaves an account of his travel along this route in 1926-27.〔Lattimore (1929), pp. 52, 250.〕 "Under the special circumstances of the caravan trade, camel traffic usually overshoots Hami (most easterly point on the arterial cart roads of Chinese Turkestan” ), going on all the way to Ku Ch’eng-tze. This is partly because the pastures near Ku Ch’eng-tze are more adequate to caravan needs, but still more because, transport being cheaper by camel than by cart, it is to the advantage of merchants to have their goods carried as far as possible by caravan."〔Lattimore (1929), p. 250.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Qitai County」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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