Payzawat County
county
Payzawat County, (also romanized as Payziwat County, from Uyghur: پەيزاۋات ناھىيىسى; Chinese: 排孜阿瓦提县), also known as Jiashi County (Chinese: 伽师县), is a county in Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, on the western rim of the Taklamakan Desert. To the east, the county borders Maralbexi County, to the south Yopurga County.
Name
The name "Jiashi" was first used in Chinese documents of Tang Dynasty and was adopted when Emperor Guangxu established the county in 1902. Allegedly the word is a transliteration of a celestial Turkic word for jade and has the same origin to "Kashi", Mandarin transliteration for "Kashgar". The Uyghur name "Payziwat" means "God's blessing of fortune" and was sometimes used in documents in Qing Dynasty. Payzawat means 'beautiful land of plenty'.
The name of the region is also transliterated as Faizabad.
History
Peyziwat County was established in July 1902.
In 1981, there was a brief pro-independence rebellion, the Jiashi uprising (1981年伽师县"5·27"暴乱), in the county staged by Uyghur activists after riots in Kashgar.
The 1997 Jiashi earthquakes, continuing to 2003, were a series of deadly earthquakes in the county.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Payzawat County” as county. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as county. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1023479. Authority coordinates are 39.492, 76.737. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1902, 1981, 1997 and 2003.
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