Dzungaria

American  

[dzoong-gair-ee-uh, zoong-] / dzʊŋˈgɛər i ə, zʊŋ- /

noun

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

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Dzungaria British  

/ zʊŋ-, dzʊŋˈɡɛərɪə /

noun

1. another name for Junggar Pendi

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Example Sentences

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 Boulger, Demetrius Charles

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 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 Yule, Henry

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 Eliot, Charles, Sir