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Hure

Hure proper noun: a banner (a type of administrative division) in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.

Proper noun

Hure

  1. A banner (a type of administrative division) in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
    • Situated to the east of the Inner Mongolian region, the Jirem League was the birthplace of the Qidan people in the 4th century AD, and was also a central region of the Liao Dynasty during the 10th-12th centuries. The people of the area enjoyed not only a high standard of living but a rich culture...1987 June 29, “Mural Paintings On Display in Beijing”, in Beijing Review, volume 30, number 26, →ISSN, →OCLC, Culture/Science, page 29, columns 2–3
    • The first Inner Mongolian modern prose work was “Struggling in a Sea of Suffering” (Gashigun-u dotorakhi telchilegchi khemekhü üliger, 1940) by Rinchinkhorlo (1904-63) of Khüriye (Hure) banner, who also translated an American detective story from Japanese into Mongolian.2004, Christopher P. Atwood, “literature”, in Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire, Facts on File, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 337, column 2

Questions about Hure

What does Hure mean?
Hure means a banner (a type of administrative division) in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China.
What part of speech is Hure?
Hure is a proper noun.

Words near Hure in the dictionary

  1. hurdy-gurdist
  2. hurdy-gurdists
  3. hurdy-gurdy
  4. hurdy-gurdyist
  5. hurdy-gurdyists
  6. Hure
  7. hureaulite
  8. hureaulites
  9. hureek
  10. Hurendhoo
  11. Hurewicz theorem

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