Dzungaria
Americannoun
noun
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But the shaggy animals which Przewalski brought back from Dzungaria were heavy-boned, with long and awkward heads.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kuldja or "Dzungaria," as it is called in the proclamation, was annexed "in perpetuity," and became the Russian sub-governorship of Priilinsk.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Demetrius Charles Boulger
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 Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
The Kalmuks who live in European Russia are the descendants of tribes who moved westwards from Dzungaria in the seventeenth century.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Sir Charles Eliot
The etymology of Dzungaria, a name which in modern times covers the territory of which we are speaking, is similar.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
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