Talk:Zayu County

Requested move 31 August 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: After multiple relists and no opposition, I see no reason not to close this and move to Zayul County. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:05, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

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Zayü County → Zayul County – Zayul is the standard English spelling of the region. It has been so from the mid-19h century till the present. Some sources below. Kautilya3 (talk) 16:19, 31 August 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. – robertsky (talk) 09:46, 8 September 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. – robertsky (talk) 17:10, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

• Lamb, Alastair (1966), The McMahon Line: a Study in the Relations Between, India, China and Tibet, 1904 to 1914, Vol. 2: Hardinge, McMahon and the Simla Conference, Routledge & K. Paul, pp. 317–318 – via archive.org

In January 1886 J. F. Needham, the Assistant Political Officer, Sadiya, with responsibility for British relations with the eastern Assam hill tribes, and Captain E. H. Molesworth, commanding the Lakhimpur Frontier Police, made their way to within one mile of Rima, the Tibetan administrative centre of Zayul,...

• Mehra, Parshotam (1974), The McMahon Line and After: A Study of the Triangular Contest on India's North-eastern Frontier Between Britain, China and Tibet, 1904-47, Macmillan, pp. 80–82, ISBN 9780333157374 – via archive.org

For [British] India, strategically of the greatest import in this context were the south Tibetan districts of Zayul, Pome, Pemako and Takpo.... Besides Pome and Pemako, the neighbouring district of Zayul was of considerable interest to the Chinese, for by this route Lhasa was much nearer to Yunnan than via the longer, and often-disturbed, Szechuan-Lhasa detour.

• Acton, Q. Ashton, ed. (2012). Brain Diseases—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition. ScholarlyEditions. ISBN 978-1-4649-9109-7.

The goal of this study was to establish the prevalence rates of epilepsy and alcohol-related risk and the treatment gap in Zayul County, Tibet Autonomous Region, to evaluate the diagnosis and treatment status of these patients. A door-to-door epidemiological survey was conducted among all the people living in the towns of Shang Zayul and Xia Zayul," scientists writing in the journal Epilepsy & Behavior report.

-- Kautilya3 (talk) 16:32, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Another one with a variant spelling, but still with a trailing "l":

• Relyea, Scott (2022). "Proposing Provinces and Claiming Territory on the Tibetan Plateau". In Acharya, Alka (ed.). Boundaries and Borderlands: A Century after the 1914 Simla Convention. Taylor & Francis. p. 86. doi:10.4324/9781003272939-5. ISBN 978-1-00-060817-5.

Only after Zhao’s frontier army had spread across Kham as far west as Gyamda (Jiangda 江達), within 250 kilometres of Lhasa, and south into Dzayül (Zayu 雜貐), just north of Assam, was his control of the eastern plateau sufficient for the next step.

-- Kautilya3 (talk) 17:32, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

• I suggest moving to Zayu County. As far as I can tell, that is the most common spelling in modern (21st-century) English-language sources.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 09:39, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Tibet has been notified of this discussion. – robertsky (talk) 17:11, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject China has been notified of this discussion. – robertsky (talk) 17:11, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

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