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Tunganistan

Tunganistan proper noun: exonym for in the territory in southern Xinjiang administered by the New 36th Division of the Kuomintang's National Revolutionary Army from 1934 to 1937.

Proper noun

Tunganistan

  1. Exonym for in the territory in southern Xinjiang administered by the New 36th Division of the Kuomintang's National Revolutionary Army from 1934 to 1937.
    • Following his withdrawal to Khotan in July 1934, Ma Hu-shan gradually consolidated his hold over the remote oases of the southern Tarim Basin, effectively establishing a Tungan satrapy where Hui Muslims ruled as colonial masters over their Turkic-speaking Muslim subjects ... The territory thus...1986, “The Role of the Hui Muslims (Tungans) in Republican Sinkiang”, in Warlords and Muslims in Chinese Central Asia: A Political History of Republican Sinkiang 1911–1949, CUP Archive, page 128
    • It is believed that these plans include the establishment of six socialist states: Manchuria, Chinese Turkestan, Tunganistan, Mongolia, and two others.1949, Political Information: Soviet and Chinese Communist Conferences in Harbin, Central Intelligence Agency, page 1

Questions about Tunganistan

What does Tunganistan mean?
Tunganistan means exonym for in the territory in southern Xinjiang administered by the New 36th Division of the Kuomintang's National Revolutionary Army from 1934 to 1937.
What part of speech is Tunganistan?
Tunganistan is a proper noun.

Words near Tunganistan in the dictionary

  1. Tungabhadra
  2. Tungag
  3. Tungamah
  4. Tungan
  5. Tungani
  6. Tunganistan
  7. Tungao
  8. Tungasan
  9. Tungate
  10. Tungates
  11. Tungcheng

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