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Miaojie

Syllables: Miao·jie

Miaojie proper noun: synonym of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

Proper noun

Miaojie

  1. Synonym of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • In 1848, Russian Senior Naval Captain Nevelskoiy and his military transport ship set sail to invade China's Heilongjiang [Amur-river] River estuary and the Sakhalin island. In 1850, Miaojie on the Heilongjiang River estuary was forcibly occupied, turned into a stronghold for aggression and renamed...1981 August 18 [1981 August 11], Nengxiong [3769 5174 7160] Wang, “How Did Czarist Russia Carry Out Its Aggression Against China?”, in Daily Report: China, volume I, number 159, Foreign Broadcast...
    • In 1850 Muraviev-Amursky hoisted Russian flags in Miaojie (known today as Nikolayevsk-na-Amure), at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River where he stationed troops to defend what he had just stolen.1991, Sheng Hu, From the Opium War to the May Fourth Movement, volume 1, Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 211

Examples of Miaojie in a sentence

  • In 1850, Miaojie on the Heilongjiang River estuary was forcibly occupied, turned into a stronghold for aggression and renamed Nikolayevsk after the czar.1981 August 18 [1981 August 11], Nengxiong [3769 5174 7160] Wang, “How Did Czarist Russia Carry Out Its Aggression Against China?”, in...
  • The ports of Miaojie/Nikolayevsk, Hailanpao/Blagoveshchensk close to the Sea of Okhotsk, and the Kuril Islands (Sakhalin) now all belonged to Russia.2022, Wenguang Shao, China’s Foreign Policy and Practice: A Survey, →ISBN, →OCLC, page...

Synonyms of Miaojie

Origin of Miaojie

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廟街 /庙街 (Miàojiē).

Questions about Miaojie

What does Miaojie mean?
Miaojie means synonym of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
How do you use Miaojie in a sentence?
In 1850, Miaojie on the Heilongjiang River estuary was forcibly occupied, turned into a stronghold for aggression and renamed Nikolayevsk after the czar.
What part of speech is Miaojie?
Miaojie is a proper noun.

Words near Miaojie in the dictionary

  1. mianserine
  2. Mianyang
  3. Miao
  4. Miao-li
  5. Miao-Yao
  6. Miaojie
  7. Miaoli
  8. Miaolingian
  9. Miaotse
  10. Miaotze
  11. miaou

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