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Inner Manchuria

Inner Manchuria proper noun: synonym of Manchuria as the three northeastern provinces of China.

Proper noun

Inner Manchuria

  1. Synonym of Manchuria as the three northeastern provinces of China.
    • In the north, however, the Russians and Japanese had other ideas and looked to lop bits off the old empire that they could control in a more formal way. Russia gained Outer Manchuria in the 1860s, and in 1895 Japan gained Taiwan.
      What happened next confirmed the worst fears of those who believed...2015, James MacDonald, “The First Era of Globalization”, in When Globalization Fails: The Rise and Fall of Pax Americana, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 48
    • The Convention of Peking, one of several unequal treaties, moreover assigned the parts in the East of the Ussuri River (Wusulijiang) to Russia. Outer Manchuria, also called Russian Manchuria was never claimed to be part of a Chinese nation-state. Today it belongs to the Russian Federation, is no...2017, Julia C. Schneider, “The New Setting: Political Thinking after 1912”, in Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History,, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 277
    Synonyms:
    Manchuria as the three northeastern provinces of China

Synonyms of Inner Manchuria

  • Manchuria as the three northeastern provinces of China

Origin of Inner Manchuria

Distinguishing this region of Greater Manchuria from Outer Manchuria from the perspective of China proper. Cf. Inner Mongolia.

Questions about Inner Manchuria

What does Inner Manchuria mean?
Inner Manchuria means synonym of Manchuria as the three northeastern provinces of China.
What part of speech is Inner Manchuria?
Inner Manchuria is a proper noun.

Words near Inner Manchuria in the dictionary

  1. inner join
  2. inner joins
  3. Inner Kartli
  4. inner lips
  5. inner man
  6. Inner Manchuria
  7. inner mantle
  8. inner marker
  9. inner markers
  10. inner men
  11. inner mission

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