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Saghalien

British  
/ səˈɡɑːljən /

noun

  1. a variant of Sakhalin

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Mailman In Estori, Saghalien, Japan, hating to deliver mail over rough roads, a mailman saved up the mail for three years planning to deliver all at one trip.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some months after their capture the Diana, now under Captain Rikord, returned to Kunashir, bringing one of the Japanese who had been taken prisoner in the descent on Saghalien.

From Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris

"It's time for you to say good-bye to Saghalien."

From The Red Rat's Daughter by Guy Boothby

The supposition then was that Saghalien formed part of the Asiatic mainland.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley

They probably came originally from the continent by way of the Kurile islands, or by the island of Saghalien.

From Japan by David Murray

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