Place · 44.50° N · 85.00° E
Dzungaria
Зүүнгар
Two travelers wrote about Dzungaria between 1893 and 1929. Here is what each of them saw, in the order they were there.
- 1893–1929
Larson, Duke of Mongolia
The basin of northern Sinkiang (Xinjiang) that gave its name to the Зүүнгар (Dzungar) confederation — the western Mongol power of Tse Ling and Amarsanaa, destroyed by Ch'ien Lung in the 1750s.
…regions already separated by nature; and on the west by Sinkiang, Dzungaria, and the Tien-shan.Listen from here · chapter 12, 0:13…Ektag-Altai on the southwest, which form a border range facing the Dzungarian depressions; and the Kentei on the southwest, separating the higher terraces of Northern…Listen from here · chapter 12, 2:51 - 1920–1921
Beasts, Men and Gods
The West Mongol country beyond the Altai, homeland of the Dzungars (Зүүнгар), whose shepherds the book counts among the tellers of the white-warrior legend; Tushegoun Lama's sway reached across Western Mongolia and Zungaria. It is Dzungaria, the Junggar Basin of northern Xinjiang.
…the snowy slopes of the Tian Shan and from the hot sands of Western Zungaria to the timbered ridges of the Sayan and to the Great Wall of China it stretches over a…Listen from here · chapter 20, 0:03…leadership of all the old wandering tribes of Western Mongolia and Zungaria, even extending his political domination over the Mongolian tribes of Turkestan.Listen from here · chapter 21, 3:56
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