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Tannu Tuva

Tannu Tuva proper noun: a partially recognized Marxist-Leninist people's republic northwest of Mongolia that existed between 1921 and 1944; roughly coterminous with modern Tuva; official names Tannu Tuva People's Republic (1921–1926) and Tuvan People's Republic (1926–1944).

Proper noun

Tannu Tuva

  1. (historical) A partially recognized Marxist-Leninist people's republic northwest of Mongolia that existed between 1921 and 1944; roughly coterminous with modern Tuva; official names Tannu Tuva People's Republic (1921–1926) and Tuvan People's Republic (1926–1944).
    • As related above, when Soviet Russia went to war with Germany in June 1941 the puppet regime in Tannu Tuva immediately declared war against Germany. Not long afterward Tannu Tuva was annexed to form part of the Soviet territory. By August 1945 Moscow applied the same formula to Outer Mongolia.1957, Chiang Chung-cheng (Kai-shek), Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 144

Forms of Tannu Tuva

alternative formTannu-Tuva

Origin of Tannu Tuva

From Russian Танну́-Тува́ (Tannú-Tuvá).

Questions about Tannu Tuva

What does Tannu Tuva mean?
Tannu Tuva means a partially recognized Marxist-Leninist people's republic northwest of Mongolia that existed between 1921 and 1944; roughly coterminous with modern Tuva; official names Tannu Tuva People's Republic (1921–1926) and Tuvan People's Republic (1926–1944).
What part of speech is Tannu Tuva?
Tannu Tuva is a proper noun.

Words near Tannu Tuva in the dictionary

  1. tannours
  2. tannoy
  3. tannoyed
  4. tannoying
  5. tannoys
  6. Tannu Tuva
  7. Tannu-Tuva
  8. tannur
  9. tannurs
  10. Tano
  11. tanoa

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