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Dzungaria
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Džungaria
English
Zungharia
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Alternative forms
en Dzungharia Dzhungaria Dzhungharia Zengoria Zungaria Zungharia Zhungaria Zhungharia Dsungaria Djungaria
Etymology
en :af Dzungar -ia<id:place> + 1
Pronunciation
en /(d)zʊŋˈɡɑːɹiə/ /(d)zʊŋˈɡɛəɹiə/
zo͝ong-gă′rē-ə dzo͝ong-gă′rē-ə zŭng-gă′rē-əDzungaria 547 3 Dzungaria (zo͝ong-gă′rēu̇, dzo͝ong-, zŭng-), Rus. Dzhungariya (jo͞on-gä′rēyu̇),Also spelled Jungaria, Sungaria, and Zungaria.
zo͝ong-gâr′ē-əDzun·gar·i·a 219 2
en ɑːɹi.ə ɛəɹi.ə 4
Proper noun
en Q284027 en geographical region in northwestern c/China.
en 1829 April Dictionary of Tibetan Language https://archive.org/details/s2id11852920/page/385/ w:The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies 27 160 906710869 432 https://archive.org/details/s2id11852920/page/432/ Little Bucharia is separated, on the north, by the chain of the Celestial Mountains, from Dzungaria, which is inhabited by nomade Calmucks, and is terminated on the north by Siberia.
en 1896 M. Horace Hayes Wild Horses https://archive.org/details/b28050435/page/272/ Points of the Horse: A Familiar Treatise on Equine Conformation https://archive.org/details/b28050435/ 2nd London Hurst and Blackett, Limited 20298572 273 https://archive.org/details/b28050435/page/273/ Prejevalsky’s Horse, which has been found in Central Asia near Zaisan and in the desert of Dzungaria, is described by Poliakof (“Annals of Natural History,” 1881, p. 16, et seq.) as intermediate between the horse and the ass.
en 1966 George Moseley A Sino-Soviet Cultural Frontier: the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Chou https://archive.org/details/sinosovietcultur0000unse/ Cambridge, Mass. w:Harvard University Press 869088527 3–4 https://archive.org/details/sinosovietcultur0000unse/page/3/ No traditional Chinese dynasty ever governed the whole of Dzungaria. None was capable of or interested in doing so, but the rich oases of the Tarim basin frequently came under imperial control.² Dzungaria was first united with China in the Mongol empire, but it was not until the Manchu or Ch'ing dynasty (1644-1911) that Peking developed a positive policy toward this vast area of mountains, steppe, and desert.
en 1971 Robert Clayton Sinkiang China Finding Out About GEOGRAPHY https://archive.org/details/china0000clay/ New York w:John Day Company 74-132951 348231 12 https://archive.org/details/china0000clay/page/12/ 1 An oil field was discovered at Karamai in 1955, the first of a number to be found in Dzungaria. This oil find has greatly helped China’s industrial development, and the oil fields are now linked to Lanchow by pipeline and by rail. Large refineries have been built at Lanchow and at Tushantzu in Dzungaria.
en 1979 w:Jan Myrdal Ann Hening The Silk Road: A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili through Sinkiang and Kansu https://archive.org/details/silkroad00janm/ New York Pantheon Books 0-394-48231-X 78-51796 611149389 4740902M 3 https://archive.org/details/silkroad00janm/page/3/ We drove from the Ili valley through the whole of Dzungaria, took the train out of Sinkiang, and continued down the Kansu corridor by car all the way to the Shensi border.
en July 29, 2017 John Lee 12 Regions of China: Xinjiang https://web.archive.org/web/20170730210358/https://thediplomat.com/2017/07/12-regions-of-china-xinjiang/ 30 July 2017 w:The Diplomat Xinjiang is China’s biggest administrative division, sprawling across 1.6 million square kilometers of some of the world’s harshest terrain. It consists of the Tarim basin, covered by the world’s second largest sand desert, and Dzungaria, an area of mixed desert, steppe, and forest.Today the region’s ethnic minority population is dominated by Muslim Turkic peoples, Uyghurs in the Tarim basin and Kazakhs in Dzungaria; hence the region was once called “Chinese Turkestan” and seen as culturally part of Central Asia.
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Derived terms
en Dzungarian
Translations
geographical region in northwest China
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 準噶爾 Zhǔngá'ěr, cmn 北疆 Běijiāng
Finnish: fi Džungaria
Hungarian: hu Dzsungária
Japanese: ja ジュンガリア Jungaria
Manchu: mnc ᠵᡠᠨ ᡤᠠᡵ
Mongolian: mn Зүүнгар
Polish: pl Dżungaria f
Portuguese: pt Dzungaria f
Russian: ru Джунга́рия f
Spanish: es Zungaria
Tajik: tg Ҷунғаристон
Uyghur: ug جۇڭغارىيە
Written Oirat: xwo ᠴᡈᡉᠨ ᡎᠠᠷ
Xibe: sjo ᡪᡠᡢᡤᠠᠷ Junggar
References
Further reading
en 1998 Junggar or Dzungaria Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1467 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1467/ 1