TIEN

Meaning of TIEN in English

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Tien Ch'ih

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Britannica English dictionary. Английский словарь Британика. 2012

TIEN — Chou k'ou tien Tien Ch'ih Tien Shan
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TIEN SHAN — The Tien Shan mountain range and the Takla Makan Desert. Chinese (Wade-Giles) T'ien Shan, or (Pinyin) Tian Shan, Russian Tyan …
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TIEN LAKE — Wade-Giles Tien Ch'ih, also called K'un-ming Ch'ih, Pinyin Dian Chi, or Kunming Chi lake lying to the south of K'un-ming …
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HSIN-TIEN — town, T'ai-pei hsien (county), northern Taiwan. It lies 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Taipei city, in the northernmost portion …
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CHOU-K'OU-TIEN — Pinyin Zhoukoudian archaeological site near the village of Chou-k'ou-tien, 26 miles (42 km) southwest of Peking, China. The site has …
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KYRGYZSTAN — officially Kyrgyz Republic Country, Central Asia. On the southeast, the Kok Shaal-Tau Range, part of the Tien Shan , forms …
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DIAN, LAKE — Chinese Dian Chi or Tien Ch'ih Lake, central Yunnan province, southern China. It is about 25 mi (40 km) long …
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TEN — I. ˈten adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English tīen, tȳn, tēn; akin to Old High German zehan ten, Old …
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TEN — /ten/ , n. 1. a cardinal number, nine plus one. 2. a symbol for this number, as 10 or X. …
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UZBEKISTAN, FLAG OF — horizontally striped blue-white-green national flag with red fimbriations (narrow borders) between the stripes. In the upper hoist corner are a …
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UIGHUR — Chinese (Pinyin) Uygur, Turkic-speaking people of interior Asia who live for the most part in northwestern China, in the Uighur …
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TZU-PO — also called Chang-tien, Pinyin Zibo, or Zhangdian industrial city and municipality (shih), central Shantung Province (sheng), China. The core of …
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TARIM RIVER — Wade-Giles romanization T'a-li-mu Ho, Pinyin Tarim He, chief river of the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, extreme northwestern China. It …
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TAKLA MAKAN DESERT — The Tien Shan mountain range and the Takla Makan Desert. Chinese (Wade-Giles) T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan Sha-mo, or (Pinyin) Taklimakan Shamo, great desert …
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TAJIKISTAN, FLAG OF — horizontally striped red-white-green national flag with a central gold crown. The flag's width-to-length ratio is 1 to 2. After World …
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SINKIANG, UIGHUR AUTONOMOUS REGION OF
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PIGNEAU DE BHAINE, PIERRE-JOSEPH-GEORGES
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PEKING MAN — extinct hominid of the species Homo erectus, known from fossils found at Chou-k'ou-tien (Zhoukoudian) cave near Peking. Peking man was …
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PEKING
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NANKING — WadeGiles romanization Nan-ching, Pinyin Nanjing city, capital of Kiangsu sheng (province), east-central China. Nanking, whose name means southern capital, is …
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KYRGYZSTAN, FLAG OF
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KAZAKSTAN — also spelled Kazakhstan, officially Republic of Kazakstan, Kazakh Qazaqstan Respublikas country of Central Asia. It is bounded on the northwest …
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HAN-T'ENG-KO-LI PEAK — Pinyin Hantengri Feng, also called Khan Tengri, peak in the Tien Shan (mountains) of Central Asia, on the boundary between …
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GOBI
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FORBIDDEN CITY — Forbidden City, Peking, China, Ming and Ch'ing dynasties. Chinese (Wade-Giles) Tzu-chin ch'eng, (Pinyin) Zijin cheng, imperial palace complex at the …
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DINH BO LINH — reign title Dinh Tien Hoang born , Hoa Lu, northern Vietnam died 979, northern Vietnam emperor and founder of the …
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CUU LONG — tinh (province) on the Mekong delta, southern Vietnam. It was created in 1976 from the former provinces of Vinh Long …
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CHINA, FLAG OF
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CENTRAL ASIA, HISTORY OF — history of the area from prehistoric and ancient times to the present. In its historical application the term Central Asia …
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TEN — / ten; NAmE / number 10 HELP NOTE : There are examples of how to use numbers at the entry …
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KYRGYZSTAN — n. officially Kyrgyz Republic Country, Central Asia. On the southeast, the Kok Shaal-Tau Range, part of the Tien Shan , …
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