Sentence examples for sinkiang from inspiring English sources

For millennia the jade carved by the Chinese consisted of nephrite from the region of Hotan (Khotan) and Yarkand in what is now Sinkiang.

"He is coming over the passes from Sinkiang [Xinjiang]," says a senior Indian military man.

Though no stripling, he would hunger to get to Siam, Sinkiang or Tartary.

In Sinkiang, however, many nomadic groups remain.

In 1969 they accused the U.S.S.R. of "social imperialism" and provoked hundreds of armed clashes on the borders of Sinkiang and Manchuria.

At its eastern extremity, next to the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, China, rises Victory (Pobedy) Peak, at 24,406 feet (7,439 metres) Kyrgyzstan's highest peak.

However, relations with China declined alarmingly, resulting in armed conflict along the Ussuri River in March 1969 and along the Soviet-Sinkiang border in August.

Russian and Chinese diplomats therefore had to begin demarcating a border between their respective spheres of influence on the Eastern Steppe as early as 1689; but a definitive border was not achieved until late in the 19th century when Russian soldiers pushed southward in Central Asia to the borders of Afghanistan, while recognizing Chinese authority over the adjacent Sinkiang Province.

It is not without significance probably, that he's been working of late on place names in Turkey, Afghanistan, and Sinkiang Province.

Traveling often with serendipitous companions, often on camelback and on foot, Mr. Bessac (pronounced bih-ZAK) wound his way west to Tihwa, now known as Urumqi, capital of the Sinkiang Province (now Xinjiang), then south through Tibet and to safety in India.

It cited a Russian attempt to overthrow the Chinese local government at Ili, a district bordering the Soviet Union in northwestern Sinkiang Province.