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Manchuria
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Manchúria
English
Alternative forms
en obsolete Manchooria Mansiouria Mandschuria Mantchuria Mantchooria
Etymology
Probably originally a backformation from en Manchurian of or relating to the Manchus, from en nl Mansiourische, from nl Mansiouwer a Manchu + nl -isch -ish: forming adjectives, possibly as a calque of en ja 満州 Manchuria; Manchurian まんしゅう, Manshū.OED. Equivalent to en la-new - and English en Manchu -ia place, with the mul r added for ease of pronunciationMcCormack (1977), p. 4. under the influence of names like en Etruria, en Liguria, &c. Cf. fr Mandchourie, de Mandschurei, &c. Further popularized by Philipp von Siebold's early-19th-century Dutch translations of Japanese maps employing the term, replacing the earlier and vaguer en Tartary, en eastern Eastern en Tartary, en Chinese en Tartary, &c.
Pronunciation
en /mænˈt͡ʃʊəɹiə/
măn-cho͝or′ē-əMan·chu·ri·a 450 2 Man·chu·ri·a (măn-cho͝or′ē-ə),
măn-cho͝o′rē-əManchuria 1136 1 Manchuria (măncho͝o′rēu̇), Rus. Manchzhuriya, or Man’chzhuriya (mänjo͞o′rēŭ), known to the Chinese simply as the Northeast [Tung-pei],
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Manchuria.wav Southern England
Proper noun
en Q81126en region of northeastern c/China *comprising the three provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang and the northeastern part of Inner Mongolia.
en The senior Japanese commanders and all ground, sea, air and auxiliary forces within Manchuria, Korea north of 38 north latitude and Karafuto shall surrender to the Commander in Chief of Soviet Forces in the Far East. (General Order No. 1, 1945)
en 1965 w:Harry S. Truman MP2002-390 Former President Truman Recalls Stalin's Broken Agreement About the Port of Dairen https://web.archive.org/web/20210602215557/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07_IU4OVVeI w:Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum National Archives Identifier: 595162 Negotiating with Stalin was like dealing with an octopus. At Yalta it had been agreed that Dairen in China would be an open port that the Chinese could use. And now they were trying- it'd be under the control of the Chinese, that the Russians could use is what I intended to say. And, it was now an approach, by Stalin, that would have given him complete possession of that part of Manchuria. And that, I wasn't in favor of doing.[...]Dairen would be administered by the Chinese, as a Chinese port, but it would be a free port that everybody could use including the Russians.
en 1968 SINŬIJU w:Encyclopedia Britannica https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita20chic/ 20 68-10064 1036882 569 https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita20chic/page/569/ Sinǔiju (or New Uiju) is an industrial and commercial city and wood rafted down the Yalu forms the base of a large forest products industry. Trade with Manchuria and China is funneled through the city to Korea.
en JULY 23, 2016 Andrew Higgins Vladivostok Lures Chinese Tourists (Many Think It’s Theirs) w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20160727032852/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/world/asia/vladivostok-china-haishenwai-tourists.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific A native of the Chinese province of Jilin in Manchuria, Mr. Cui said it was a “historical fact” that the home of Russia’s Pacific Fleet and the showcase of President Vladimir V. Putin’s ambitions to project his country as an Asian power is in reality Chinese territory.
en February 5, 2022 Kim Tong-hyung S. Korea politicians criticize China over traditional dress https://web.archive.org/web/20220205141735/https://apnews.com/article/winter-olympics-sports-beijing-south-korea-cultures-d10103e005c0edd6eb3b91bcbbe1ae2d 05 February 2022 w:AP News Aside from the online bickering about kimchi and hanbok, South Korea and China also have a long history dispute over the domain of ancient kingdoms whose territories stretched from the Korean Peninsula to Manchuria.
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en historical The area traditionally inhabited by the Manchu people and their Jurchen predecessors, in modern China and Russia.
en January 10, 1848 Aaron H. Palmer Memoir, Geographical, Political, and Commercial, on the Present state, productive resources, and capabilities for commerce, of Siberia, Manchuria, and the Asiatic islands of the Northern Pacific ocean https://www.google.com/books/edition/Interoceanic_canals_1839_1861/3M-QFkPvoX0C 34 The east coast of Manchuria is generally high and rocky.
en 1868 October The Russians in Manchuria w:New Monthly Magazine https://archive.org/details/sim_new-monthly-magazine_1868-10_143_574/ CXLIII DLXXVIV 377 https://archive.org/details/sim_new-monthly-magazine_1868-10_143_574/page/377/ In 1866, Her Majesty’s ship Scylla, Captain Courtenay, left Nagasaki, Japan, on the 20th of July, with orders to visit the different Russian settlements on the coast of Manchuria, and we are indebted to the Rev. W. V. Lloyd for an excellent account of the trip, given in the thirty-seventh volume of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society—an account which is further illustrated by a map of Russian Manchuria.
en 1965 Hector Chevigny The Sale Russian America: The Great Alaskan Venture, 1741-1867 https://archive.org/details/russianamericagr00chev/ New York w:Ballantine Books 1973 0-345-23575-4 65-12027 16941857 206 https://archive.org/details/russianamericagr00chev/page/206/ Great interest in the Amur development was shown by American traders. When he had won the Amur and had gained coastal Manchuria as well, Muraviev was even more convinced that Alaska was unnecessary to the empire and that it should be ceded to the United States, whose role would be that of protector of the Siberian back door.
en 1998 Robert Carter Book IV Barbarians https://archive.org/details/barbarians0000cart/ w:Orion Books 0-75281-339-0 993249501 227 https://archive.org/details/barbarians0000cart/page/227/ He had come here to carve a slice of China for the Tsar. A year ago the Russians had annexed Manchuria’s east coast and the strategic port of Hai-shen-wei, renaming it Vladivostok — ‘eastern possession’.
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en historical en Manchukuo: a former puppet state of Imperial Japan.
Synonyms
Northeastern China en Dongbei, en Northeast, en Inner Manchuria
Hyponyms
en Greater Manchuria Inner Manchuria Outer Manchuria Russian Manchuria South Manchuria
Holonyms
traditional area en Tartary obsolete
Translations
historical region in Northeast Asia
Arabic: ar مَنْشُورِيَا f
Armenian: hy Մանջուրիա
Asturian: ast Manchuria f
Azerbaijani: az Mancuriya
Basque: eu Mantxuria
Belarusian: be Маньчжу́рыя f
Bengali: bn মাঞ্চুরিয়া
Bulgarian: bg Манджу́рия f
Buryat: bua Манжуур
Catalan: ca Manxúria f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 滿洲 Mǎnzhōu; cmn 關東 Guāndōng, cmn 東三省 Dōngsānshěng
Czech: cs Mandžusko n
Danish: da Manchuriet n
Dutch: nl Mantsjoerije
Esperanto: eo Manĉurio, eo Manĉurujo
Estonian: et Mandžuuria
Finnish: fi Mantšuria
French: fr Mandchourie
Friulian: fur Mançurie f
Galician: gl Manchuria f
Georgian: ka მანჯურია
German: de Mandschurei n
Greek: el Μαντζουρία f
Hebrew: he מנצ׳וריה f manchuriya
Hindi: hi मंचूरिया
Hungarian: hu Mandzsúria
Ido: io Mandjuria
Indonesian: id Manchuria
Ingrian: izh Mancžjuria
Irish: ga Manchúir f an Mhanchúir
Italian: it Manciuria f
Japanese: ja 満洲 まんしゅう, Manshū, ja 満州 まんしゅう, Manshū, ja 関東 かんとう, Kantō
Khmer: km ម៉ាន់ជូរី
Korean: ko ^만주(滿洲)
Kyrgyz: ky Манжурия
Latvian: lv Mandžūrija f
Lithuanian: lt Mandžiūrija f
Macedonian: mk Манџурија f
Malay: ms Manchuria
Manchu: mnc ᡩᡝᡵᡤᡳ ᡤᠣᠯᠣ, mnc ᡩᡝᡵᡤᡳ ᡳᠯᠠᠨ ᡤᠣᠯᠣ
Manx: gv Mançhoor f Yn Vançhoor
Marathi: mr मांचुरिया
Mongolian: mn Манжуур
Mongolian script: mn ᠮᠠᠨᠵᠤᠤᠷ
Norwegian: no Mandsjuria
Occitan: oc Manchoria f
Persian: fa منچوری mančuri, fa منچورستان mančurestân
Polish: pl Mandżuria f
Portuguese: pt Manchúria f
Romanian: ro Manciuria f
Russian: ru Маньчжу́рия f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Ма̀нџӯрија f
Latin: sh Màndžūrija f
Slovak: sk Mandžusko n
Spanish: es Manchuria f
Swahili: sw Manchuria
Swedish: sv Manchuriet
Tagalog: tl Manchuria
Telugu: te మంచూరియా
Thai: th แมนจูเรีย
Tibetan: bo
Turkish: tr Mançurya
Ukrainian: uk Маньчжу́рія f
Uyghur: ug مانجۇرىيە
Uzbek: uz Manjuriya
Vietnamese: vi Mãn Châu (vi 滿洲)
Xibe: sjo
References
Further reading
Manchurian adj. and n 113261 2000
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en 1998 Northeast 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 2219 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/2219/ 3 Formerly called Manchuria.
en back-formations
Asturian
Proper noun
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ast Manchuria Q81126
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f
es Manchuria Q81126
Related terms
es manchú