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Bay (other)
A bay is an area of water bordered by land on three sides. Bay, Bays, baying, or The Bay may also refer to: Places China * Bay County or Baicheng County, Aksu Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region France * Bay, Haute-Saône, a commune Philippines * Bay, Laguna, a municipality * Bay River Somalia * Bay, Somalia United Kingdom * Bay, Dorset, a location in England * Bay, Highland, a location in Scotland United States * Bay, Arkansas * Bay, Springfield, Massachusetts, a neighborhood * Bay, Missouri * Bay County, Florida * Bay County, Michigan * Bays, Kentucky * Bays, Ohio * San Francisco Bay Area, California, a metropolitan area often referred to as just "the Bay" Animals and plants Animals * Bay (horse), a color of the hair coats of some horses * Baying, a kind of howling made by canines Plants * Bay laurel, the evergreen laurel tree species ''Laurus nobilis'' * Bay leaf, the aromatic leaves of several species of the Laurel family * Rose bay, a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baicheng County
Baicheng County ( zh, c=拜城县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Bay County (pronounced like 'bye', , ;, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency zh, s=拜县), is a county in Aksu Prefecture of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. History In 1882, the county was established. On 6 November 1997, a member of a Xinjiang separatist group, Muhammat Tursun, fatally shot imam Yunus Sidiq Damolla at his mosque in Baicheng County. According to a report from ''Radio Free Asia'', on February 17, 2015, seventeen Uyghurs (four policemen, nine attackers and four bystanders) were killed after a stabbing incident from a police station in the county. On September 18, 2015, a group of terrorists, suspected to be Uyghurs, attacked workers and security guards at the Sogan Colliery in Terek, leaving at up to 50 dead and 50 wounded. A manhunt for the suspects concluded on November 13, with 28 suspects killed and 1 surrendering. In in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |