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6 unusual facts about Manchuria


Cecina manchurica

The specific name manchurica refers to Manchuria, the historical region where its type locality was situated.

Helen Bickham

Helen Bickham was born on June 9, 1935 in Harbin, Manchuria at the time of Japanese occupation.

Manchuria

The name Guandong later came to be used more narrowly for the area of the Kwantung Leased Territory on the Liaodong Peninsula.

Various ethnic groups and their respective kingdoms, including the Sushen, Donghu, Xianbei, Wuhuan, Mohe, Khitan and Jurchens have risen to power in Manchuria.

William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor

In 1932, Astor was appointed secretary to Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton, League of Nations Committee of Enquiry in what was then known as Manchuria.

Wuji

Wuji (people) (勿吉人), pronounced in ancient times as "Moji or "Merjie", an ancient ethnic group in Manchuria


Aihui

Aigun, or Aihui town, historic town of China in northern Manchuria, in Aihui District

Airco DH.9A

The Soviets deployed R-1s in support of the Chinese Kuomintang forces in the Northern Expedition against warlords in 1926-27 and against Chinese forces in clashes over control of the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria in 1929.

Amur Annexation

Chuang Guandong - the opening of the "remainder" of the Manchuria for large-scale settlement by Han Chinese farmers.

An Sugil

Ahn Soo-kil (1911–1977) was a Korean novelist and journalist who devoted much of his life to depicting the lives of the Korean settlers in Jiandao, Manchuria.

Asian Paradise Flycatcher

Asian Paradise-flycatchers inhabit thick forests and well-wooded habitats from Turkestan to Manchuria, all over India and Sri Lanka to the Malay Archipelago on the islands of Sumba and Alor.

Blagoveshchensk

Louis Livingston Seaman mentioned the massacre as being the reason for the Chinese Honghuzi hatred towards the Russians:The Chinaman, be he Hung-hutze or peasant, in his relation to the Russians in this conflict with Japan has not forgotten the terrible treatment accorded him since the Muscovite occupation of Manchuria.

Buyeo

Buyeo kingdom, a kingdom located in today's North Korea and southern Manchuria from around the 2nd century BC to 494 AD

Chuang Guandong

Inner Manchuria, also called Guandong (literally, "east of the pass" referring to Shanhai Pass at the eastern end of the Great Wall of China) or Guānwài (關外; "outside of the pass"), used to be a land of sparse population, inhabited mainly by the Tungusic peoples.

Dongdan

Dongdan Kingdom, puppet kingdom established by the Khitan to rule the realm of the Balhae Kingdom in Eastern Manchuria

Dongyi

The Book of Later Han puts the section of "Dongyi liezhuan (東夷列傳)" and covers Buyeo, Yilou, Goguryeo, Eastern Okjeo, Hui, Samhan and Wa, in other words, eastern Manchuria, Korea, Japan and some other islands.

Feng Zhanhai

Feng Zhanhai or Feng Chan-hai, 冯占海,(1899–1963), was one of the leaders of the volunteer armies resisting the Japanese and the puppet state of Manchukuo in Manchuria.

Fourth Field Army

It was formed during the Chinese Civil War by existing members of Eighth Route Army and New Fourth Army stationed in Manchuria along with others, where they fought against the Republic of China government.

Franco-Japanese Treaty of 1907

The non-public supplement of the agreement defined these areas as Manchuria, Mongolia and the province of Fukien for Japan, and the provinces of Yunnan, Guangxi and Guangdong for France.

Gōgen Yamaguchi

During his military tour in Manchuria in World War II, Gōgen was captured by the Soviet military in 1942 and incarcerated as a prisoner of war in a Russian concentration camp; it was here that he battled and defeated a live tiger according to his autobiography (cited above).

Huining

Huining Fu (會寧府), former prefecture in the Shangjing region of Manchuria, location of the early capital of the Jin (Jurchen) Dynasty

James W. Davidson

In 1904, Davidson was appointed to Dalny, Manchuria, one of the political consulates, where he was expected to promote Secretary Hay's “open door” policy.

Karelian Front

The experiences in the conduct of the operation, particularly in terms of organising rear-area services and supply, were considered important to the conduct of the Red Army’s offensive against the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria, and many leading officers were transferred from Karelian Front to the Baikal theatre of war.

Kidan

Khitan people, ancient nomadic people, originally located at Mongolia and Manchuria

Manchukuo

The 2008 South Korean western The Good, the Bad, the Weird is set in the desert wilderness of 1930s Manchuria.

Inner Manchuria came under strong Russian influence in the 1890s with the building of the Chinese Eastern Railway through Harbin to Vladivostok.

Marsh Harrier

The Eastern Marsh Harrier (C. spilonotus) breeds in the grasslands and wetlands of southern Siberia, northern Mongolia, north-east China, Manchuria and Japan, and migrates for the northern winter to South-east Asia, the Philippines and northern Borneo.

Mongolian Revolution of 1911

The early Manchu rulers enacted various laws to isolate Manchuria from China proper (Eighteen Provinces) and Mongolia.

Na Woon-gyu

To avoid imprisonment, he spent two years crossing and re-crossing the Duman River, which separates Korea from Manchuria.

Nobuyoshi Mutō

After a stint as Inspector-General of Military Training (26 August 1927 – 26 May 1932), he then returned to Manchuria from 1932 to 1933 as Commander in Chief of the Manchukuo Imperial Army, while simultaneously holding the positions of Commander of the Kwantung Army and Governor of Kwantung Leased Territory.

Park Kyung-won

At 10:35 AM on of 7 August 1933, she took off from Tokyo's Haneda Airport on one such flight to Manchuria; she crashed 42 minutes later near Hakone, Kanagawa and died.

Peter Chang

Zhang Xueliang (1901–2001), ruler of Manchuria and participant in the Xi'an Incident

Pogranichny, Primorsky Krai

If one were to travel from Vladivostok to Manchuria along Harbin–Suifenhe Railway (the former Transmanchurian rail line), Grodekovo will be the last Russian station before entering China.

Romanian diaspora

Over 100,000 ethnic Romanians are living throughout far eastern Russia, thousands of Romanians in villages of the Amur River valley on the Chinese Manchurian side of that river, and about 2,000 Romanian immigrants in Japan since the late 20th century.

Russian Far East

The recently established Pacific seaport of Vladivostok was operational only during the summer season, but Port Arthur in Manchuria is operational all year.

Senjūrō Hayashi

Acting without authorization by the Emperor or central government in Tokyo, Hayashi ordered the 39th Mixed Brigade to cross the Yalu River that same day into Manchuria.

Shu Xingbei

In July 1927, Shu left USA, and travelled through Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Moscow, and Warsaw, eventually reached Germany.

Silla–Tang War

In 675, Li Jinxing (李謹行) reached Sillan territory via land, using Mohe forces in Manchuria that had submitted to Tang, with the intent of occupying territory in Silla.

South Manchuria Railway

According to the agreement, Russian gauge tracks would continue from the "Russian" Kuancheng Station to the "Japanese" Changchun Station, and vice versa, tracks on the "gauge adapted by the South Manchuria Railway" (i.e., the standard gauge) would continue from the Changchun Station to the Kuancheng Station.

Terauchi Masatake

He oversaw the Nishihara Loans (made to support the Chinese warlord Duan Qirui in exchange for confirmation of Japanese claims to parts of Shandong Province and increased rights in Manchuria) and the Lansing-Ishii Agreement (recognizing Japan's special rights in China).

Tetsuya Chiba

He was born in Chuo, Tokyo, Japan, but lived most of his early childhood in Manchuria when it was still a Japanese colony during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Trams in Dalian

In 1945, the Soviet Union Red Army defeated Japanese forces located in Manchuria and occupied Dalian in the last scene of World War II.

Viktor Sakharov

In 1904, after the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, Sakharov succeeded Aleksey Kuropatkin as a Minister of War, when Kuropatkin was appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian land forces in Manchuria.

Wang Jiaxiang

During the Chinese Civil War, Wang was sent to Manchuria to work with Lin Biao and Gao Gang, but only as their subordinate with title of Minister of City Organization Department, acting Minister of Propaganda Department of Northeast Bureau of CPC.

Wiley B. Glass

They went into all shantung and into other provinces such as Honan and Anhwei and even up into the far areas of Manchuria.

Yu Chung-han

Yu Chung-han, a prominent civilian politician of Zhang Xueliang's Northeastern government, who favored the autonomy of Manchuria and aided Japan's establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo.

Yu Chung-han, was a prominent elder statesman of Zhang Xueliang's Government in Mukden and the leader of the civilian group in Manchuria which favored "hokyo anmin" (secure boundary and peaceful life), meaning according to him, the protection and prosperity of the Northeastern Provinces were to be the supreme concern of the government, including the relationship with China proper.

Zhu Quan

He was granted the frontier fief of Ning with his capital at Daning in Manchuria in 1391.


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