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Heihsiatzu
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English
Etymology
From en cmn 黑瞎子島 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Hei¹-hsia¹-tzŭ³ Tao³.
Proper noun
en Heixiazi.
en 21 April 1969 18 April 1969 New Film Exposes Soviet Border Violations Daily Report: Communist China I 76 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049262093&seq=895 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Peking NCNA Domestic Service zh 31371214 Communist China: International Affairs A 2 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049262093&seq=900 The Soviet revisionists dispatched fully armed troops to occupy by force the Chinese territory of Heihsiatzu Island and once again invaded the Chinese territory of Wupalao Island, Chilihsing Island, and other islands.
en 2012 Stuart D. Goldman The Global Context Nomonhan, 1939: The Red Army's Victory That Shaped World War II https://archive.org/details/nomonhan1939reda0000gold/ Annapolis, Maryland w:Naval Institute Press 978-1-59114-329-1 2011048511 765486658 32 https://archive.org/details/nomonhan1939reda0000gold/page/32/ Heihsiatzu Island, the most strategically important of the Amur islands, is situated at the juncture of the Amur and Ussuri Rivers and screens Khabarovsk from Manchuria. Here too, the main channel had shifted from south to north of the island.³² Khabarovsk was the second largest city in the Soviet Far East and the administrative center of the Far Eastern Army. If the channel north and east of Heihsiatzu Island were recognized as the boundary, Japanese naval vessels would be within their rights to steam right up to the city’s docks and Japanese artillery on the island would have the ability to fire at point-blank range into the city.
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