Dzungaria

[ dzoong-gair-ee-uh, zoong- ]

noun

1. a region in northern Sinkiang, China: a Mongol kingdom during the 11th to 14th centuries.

Dzungaria

/ zʊŋ-; dzʊŋˈɡɛərɪə /

noun

1. another name for Junggar Pendi

Example Sentences

But the shaggy animals which Przewalski brought back from Dzungaria were heavy-boned, with long and awkward heads.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Kalmucks are a Buddhist and Mongolian people who originated in a confederacy of tribes dwelling in Dzungaria, migrated to Siberia, and settled on the Lower Volga.

From Project Gutenberg

Last is the Altai, near the 50th parallel, rising to 10,000 or 12,000 ft., which separates the waters of the great rivers of western Siberia from those that collect into the lakes of north-west Mongolia, Dzungaria and Kalka.

From Project Gutenberg

Kuldja or "Dzungaria," as it is called in the proclamation, was annexed "in perpetuity," and became the Russian sub-governorship of Priilinsk.

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The Kalmuks who live in European Russia are the descendants of tribes who moved westwards from Dzungaria in the seventeenth century.

From Project Gutenberg