Lasa
See also: Appendix:Variations of "lasa"
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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin[1] 拉薩/拉萨 (Lāsà).
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Lasa
- Alternative form of Lhasa (capital city of Tibet): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
- 1990 June 6 [1988 February], Amnesty International, “CHINA: DETENTIONWITHOUT TRIAL, ILL-TREATMENT OF DETAINEES AND POLICE SHOOTING OF CIVILIANS IN TIBET”, in Sino-American Relations: One Year After the Massacre at Tiananmen Square[2], United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, page 264:
- Several hundred people are reported to have been detained in Lasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, in connection with three demonstrations and a riot in late September and early October 1987.
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Lasa f (Cyrillic spelling Ласа)