Tian Shan
See also: Tian-Shan
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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanisation of Mandarin 天山 (Tiān Shān), from Uyghur تەڭرىتاغ (tengritagh, literally “Mountains of God (Tengri)”) (Tengri Tagh).
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Tian Shan
- A mountain range in Central Asia.
- [1905, Gottfried Merzbacher, The Central Tian-Shan Mountains 1902-1903[1], London: John Murray, →OCLC, →OL, page 1:
- WHEN in 1892, on a journey into Central Asia, I first made acquaintance with a small portion of the Central Tian-Shan, I received, even by a mere flying visit, abiding impressions of its magnificent mountain chains.]
- [1978, Daily Report: People's Republic of China[2], numbers 128-140, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15:
- During my inspection of counties in Changchi Prefecture last September, I came to realize that the irrigation of the Sinkiang farmland depended mainly on the melted snow of the Tienshan Mountains.]
- 2009, Y.J. Zhu, “Taklamakan Desert Moon Ride”, in Lucy McCauley, editor, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009: True Stories from Around the World (Travelers' Tales)[3], →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 154:
- We have descended Tian Shan and entered the Taklamakan Desert, a barren landscape painted in ecru—no shrubs, no grass, only waves upon waves of naked ridges the color of buff, the highest few spotted with white specks of snow.
- 2022 June 16, Dave Kindy, “DNA evidence reveals where the Black Death began”, in The Washington Post[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-17, RETROPOLIS[5]:
- The excavation of the KaraDjigach site, in the Chu-Valley within the foothills of the Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan, in August 1886.
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- (from Uyghur) Tengri Tagh
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mountain range
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- Alternative spelling of Tian-Shan