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Yatung

Yatung proper noun: synonym of Shasima (Sharsingma; Xarsingma; a town and the administrative headquarters of Yadong County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China).

Proper noun

Yatung

  1. (dated) Synonym of Shasima (Sharsingma; Xarsingma; a town and the administrative headquarters of Yadong County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China).
    • The Tibetans had encroached upon our territory in Sikkim, they had established a customs post at Giao-gong, fifteen miles inside the frontier, and had forbidden British subjects to pass their outposts there; they had thrown down the boundary pillars which had been set up along the undisputed...1905, Perceval Landon, The Opening of Tibet: An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There by the English Government in the Year...
    • In spite of a further trade agreement on December 5, 1893, between Great Britain and China, which was nominally accepted by Tibet, providing for a trade mart at Yatung (in Tibet just beyond the Sikkim frontier) and for free trade (except in certain prohibited articles) for five years between Tibet...1926, Norman Dwight Harris, Europe and the East, Houghton Mifflin company, page 331
    Synonyms:
    Shasima

Examples of Yatung in a sentence

  • The boundary pillars between Tibet and Sikkim were torn down, a wall built across the trade route to Yatung, and Tibetan merchants were forbidden to cross the border.1926, Norman Dwight Harris, Europe and the East, Houghton Mifflin company, page 331:
  • We have just arrived at Yatung, which the local people call Shasima, possibly a name of Lepcha origin.1953, Fosco Maraini, translated by Eric Mosbacher, Secret Tibet, New York: The Viking Press, →OCLC, page 105:
  • At Yatung, the question of whether the Dalai Lama should go into exile or come to terms with the Chinese became the subject of protracted debate.1963, Margaret W. Fisher, Leo E. Rose, Robert A. Huttenback, Himalayan Battleground; Sino-Indian Rivalry in Ladakh, New York: Frederick A....
  • The total volume of small trading transactions between Yatung (Chomo) County in Tibet and Bhutan, a small country neighboring China on the southwest reached 220,000 yuan (RMB) in 1981.1982 May 27 [1982 May 24], “Border Trade Between Xizang, Bhutan Flourishes”, in Daily Report: China, volume I, number 103, Foreign...

Synonyms of Yatung

  • Shasima

Origin of Yatung

Borrowed from Mandarin 亞東／亚东 (Yàdōng).

Questions about Yatung

What does Yatung mean?
Yatung means synonym of Shasima (Sharsingma; Xarsingma; a town and the administrative headquarters of Yadong County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China).
How do you use Yatung in a sentence?
The boundary pillars between Tibet and Sikkim were torn down, a wall built across the trade route to Yatung, and Tibetan merchants were forbidden to cross the border.
What part of speech is Yatung?
Yatung is a proper noun.

Words near Yatung in the dictionary

  1. yatters
  2. yattle
  3. Yatton
  4. Yatton Keynell
  5. yatts
  6. Yatung
  7. Yatvingian
  8. Yatvingians
  9. Yatvyag
  10. Yatvyagian
  11. Yatvyagians

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