Dzungaria
Proper noun
Meaning
Dzungaria
A geographical region in northwestern China.
Examples
After seven months of travel, only one-third (66,073) of the original group reached Dzungaria (Balkhash Lake, western border of the Qing Empire).
Another part of Choibalsan's plan was to merge Inner Mongolia and Dzungaria with Mongolia.
The Qing "final solution" of genocide to solve the problem of the Dzungar Mongols created a land devoid of Dzungars, which was followed by the Qing sponsored settlement of millions of other people in Dzungaria.
Dzungaria was fully opened to Han migration by the Qianlong Emperor from the beginning.
Only in some pockets of the Dzungaria region of Xinjiang is the conspicuous seasonal variation in precipitation that defines Chinese (and, to a large extent, East Asian) climate absent.
Uyghurs who migrated from the Tarim Basin to Ürümqi and Dzungaria in the northern portion of Xinjiang during the Qing dynasty were known as Taranchi meaning "farmer".