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Sungari

British  
/ ˈsʊŋɡərɪ /

noun

  1. another name for the Songhua

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HARBIN, or Kharbin, town of Manchuria, on the right bank of the river Sungari.

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Their chief settlements are on the right bank of the Amur and along the Sungari and Usuri rivers.

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By conventional usage a relatively small area on the east side of the Great Khingan, between the upper waters of the Sungari and the upper waters of the Liao-ho, is also reckoned to belong to the Gobi.

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Later, the Chinese chronicles mention the U-ki or Mo-ho, a warlike people of the Sungari valley and surrounding uplands, who in the 7th century founded the kingdom of Pu-haī, overthrown in 925 by the Khitans of the Lower Sungari below its Noni confluence, who were themselves Tunguses and according to some Chinese authorities the direct ancestors of the Manchus.

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The dawn attack on the reflagged tanker came almost exactly 24 hours after another missile, also thought to be an Iranian-launched Silkworm, slammed into the starboard side of the supertanker Sungari, a U.S.-owned, Liberian- registered vessel that was not under the protection of the U.S. fleet.

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