Hulunbuir

English

Alternative forms
  • Hulun Buir

Etymology

Borrowed from Mongolian ᠬᠥᠯᠥᠨ
ᠪᠤᠢᠷ (kölön buir), from Hulun Lake and Buir Lake.[1]

Proper noun

Hulunbuir

  1. A prefecture-level city in Inner Mongolia, China.
    • 1949, Michel N. Pavlovsky, Chinese-Russian Relations‎, New York: Philosophical Library, →OCLC, page 65:
      Before it disappeared from the scene, the Tsarist government had effected two slight alterations in the previous agreements, one of which would more accurately define the territorial limits of Outer Mongolia, and the other determine the status of Hulunbuir (Mongolian Barga), which was adjacent to the Province of Tsitsihar (in Manchuria), as well as that of Tannu-Urianhai.
    • 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic‎, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 239:
      Hailar is the former capital of the Huna League and since 1954 administrative center of the Hulunbuir League.
    • 1976, Sow-Theng Leong, Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917-1926‎, Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 71:
      In November 1911, when China was preoccupied with the republican revolution, the Outer Mongolian lamas and princes nevertheless declared independence, and enthroned the Jebtsun-damba as the Bogdo-gegen or king. They were joined by Inner Mongolian dissidents and those of Hulunbuir.
    • 2020 September 3, Huizhong Wu, “Students in Inner Mongolia protest Chinese language policy”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 03 February 2021:
      A high school student in the city of Hulunbuir said students rushed out of their school on Tuesday and destroyed a fence before paramilitary police swarmed in and tried to return them to class.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hulunbuir.

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  1. Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hulun Buir Meng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1331, column 2: “It contains the lakes Hulun Nur and Buir (Bor) Nur, for which it is sometimes called Hulunbuir.”

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