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Koko Nor
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kōkō nōr′en 1952 Tsinghai, Chinghai, or Ch’ing-hai, or Koko Nor Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1953 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1953/ 1 Tsinghai, Chinghai, or Ch’ing-hai (all: chĭng′hī′), or Koko Nor (kōkō nōr′) [all mean "blue sea"],
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en Qinghai.
en 1970 w:René Grousset Naomi Walford The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia https://archive.org/details/empireofsteppesh0000grou/ New Brunswick, NJ w:Rutgers University Press fr 0-8135-0627-1 77-108-759 899101303 22081029M 118 https://archive.org/details/empireofsteppesh0000grou/page/118/ The Tibetans, defeated in 700 by the Chinese general T’ang Hiu-ying, had sue for peace in 702, but war broke out again almost at once. In 737 the Chinese won a great victory over them west of the Koko Nor, and in 746 the Chinese general Wang Chung-tsu defeated them once more in the same region.
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