"Ninghsia" meaning in English

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Proper name

Head templates: {{en-prop}} Ninghsia
  1. Alternative spelling of Ningxia Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Ningxia
    Sense id: en-Ninghsia-en-name-5BqE9di6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "text": "Accordingly an army was sent into Corea. It met the Japanese before the walls of Pʻing Jang (平壤), where it was annihilated and its commander, Tsu Chʻêng-hsun, (祖承訓), barely escaped with his life. The next Chinese army under the command of Li Ju-sung (李如松), fresh from a successful campaign against a Mongol rebel in Ning Hsia (甯夏), gained a victory over the Japanese in Pʻing Jang; but, elated by this success, the Chinese general allowed himself to be led into an ambuscade near Seoul and overthrown (1593).]",
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          "text": "THERE is only one way in which open competition could be established once more in the interior markets which are accessible to Russia. That would be by constructing a railway into Kansu Province, either by completing the present branch line from the Pekin-Hankow line through Shensi, or by continuing the Pekin-Suiyuan line, which now stops at the Yellow River, up past Ninghsia to Lanchow.",
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          "text": "Wall posters written by anti-Communist organizations formed by Moslem people in the North China mainland province of Ninghsia cropped up one after the other in early last April, accusing the Chinese Communists of persecuting the Moslem people and calling on the people to join guerrilla forces in the mountains, according to intelligence reports from the area.[...]\nAccording to residents of Yinchuan City, capital of Ninghsia, some 1,000 educated Moslem youths have gone up the Yun Wu Mountains and are ready to sabotage Communist farm facilities at any time.",
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          "text": "Oh, I trekked through Burma and across the Gobi, photographed some camel races for National Geographic. I lived for a year in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, but it started to get too touristy. I moved on to Ninghsia where I entered a Buddhist monastery as a novitiate monk.",
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