Word.ws English Dictionary

Kuldja

Kuldja proper noun: synonym of Yining.

Proper noun

Kuldja

  1. Synonym of Yining.
    • Ten years later two Belgian fathers were assigned to live in Sinkiang. They went out from Belgium through Russia, and there is an interesting note on their first contact with their Sinkiang flock. This was at Kuldja, just within the border. There were Russian Orthodox priests here who had...1945, Mark Tennien, “More about Sinkiang”, in Chungking Listening Post, New York: Creative Age Press, Inc., pages 96–97
    • The largest city on the Chinese Ili is Kuldja, a fortress town, with a population well over 110,000. The territory around Kuldja has been organized as the Sibo Autonomous Hsien, although the Sibos, a Tungus-Manchurian people, number only 19,000. Because of their close association with the Uighurs...1962, W. A. Douglas Jackson, The Russo-Chinese Borderlands: Zone of Peaceful Contact or Potential Conflict?, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., pages 9–10
    Synonyms:
    Yining

Examples of Kuldja in a sentence

  • This was at Kuldja, just within the border.1945, Mark Tennien, “More about Sinkiang”, in Chungking Listening Post, New York: Creative Age Press, Inc., pages 96–97:
  • The largest city on the Chinese Ili is Kuldja, a fortress town, with a population well over 110,000.1962, W. A. Douglas Jackson, The Russo-Chinese Borderlands: Zone of Peaceful Contact or Potential Conflict?, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc....
  • In 1851, the Russians obtained important trade privileges on the Sino-Russian border and the right to establish factories and a Consulate at Kuldja north of the Tien Shan.1964, G. J. Alder, British India's Northern Frontier 1865-1895: A Study in Imperial Policy, Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, page 34:
  • The answer seems to be — not that there’s much consensus on the subject — that it was another name for Kuldja, or Yining, on the Ili River, which falls out of Tian Shan, the celestial mountains.2005, Mathew Lyons, Impossible Journeys (Cadogan Guides), Globe Pequot Press, published 2006, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 101–102:

Synonyms of Kuldja

Forms of Kuldja

alternative formKhuldja
alternative formKhulja
alternative formKulja

Origin of Kuldja

From Russian Кульджа (Kulʹdža).

Questions about Kuldja

What does Kuldja mean?
Kuldja means synonym of Yining.
How do you use Kuldja in a sentence?
This was at Kuldja, just within the border.
What part of speech is Kuldja?
Kuldja is a proper noun.

Words near Kuldja in the dictionary

  1. Kulasihan
  2. kulbasa
  3. kulcha
  4. kulchas
  5. Kulcsar
  6. Kuldja
  7. Kuleba
  8. Kulesa
  9. Kulesas
  10. Kuleshov effect
  11. Kuleshov effects

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Kuldja (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Kuldja.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/kuldja. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.