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Definition of Tyan shan
1. Noun. A major mountain range of central Asia; extends 1,500 miles.
Group relationships: Cathay, China, Communist China, Mainland China, People's Republic Of China, Prc, Red China, Bharat, India, Republic Of India, Russia, Russian Federation
Terms within: Pobeda Peak, Pobedy Peak
Generic synonyms: Chain, Chain Of Mountains, Mountain Chain, Mountain Range, Range, Range Of Mountains
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tyan Shan
Literary usage of Tyan shan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"It is divided by the Mustagh range and a southwestern outrunner of the Tyan-Shan
Mountains into East or Chinese Turkestan and West or Russian Turkestan. ..."
2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"It is divided by the Mustagh range and a southwestern outrunner of the Tyan-Shan
Mountains into East or Chinese Turkestan, and West or Russian Turkestan. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Asiatic Society of Bengal (1878)
"Tyan-Shan mountains and probably also the name given to the town of Samarkand.
... The mountains of Karatau, a branch of the Tyan-Shan mountains, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... formed by the confluence of the Aksu, Yarkand and Khotan-Darya at the southern
base of the western Tyan-Shan ranges, 60 miles southeast of Aksu. ..."
5. American History and Its Geographic Conditions by Ellen Churchill Semple (1903)
"... she has stretched her power to the snowy passes of the tyan shan and the Pamir,
from which she hopes to lay hold on Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan. ..."
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