Origin of the place name Manzhouli:
After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty in 1644, there were nomadic pastoralists and nomadic hunters such as Balkhu, Buryat Mongols and Daur, Ewenke in Manzhouli area for pastoralism and hunting.1727, the Qing government set up 3 Karen in Manzhouli area ****.
Manzhouli has a history of nearly a hundred years since the city was founded in 1901.Before the 20th century, it was an ideal pasture for nomads. At that time, there was a spring that gushed in all seasons to the west of present-day Sidao Street in the city's northern district.
Because the spring was located in the northern part of the Holejin Mountain, the herders called it "Holejin Prague". The Mongolian word "Khorlegin" means "exuberant" and "Brag" means "spring", which together means "exuberant spring", and became the geographic name of the area of the city of Manchuria at the time.
In 1901-1902, after the East Qing Railway built a station in the region of Holguin Prague, it was named "Manchuria Station". The name "Manchuria" means "Manchurian people", i.e. the present-day Manchus, and is also a synonym for the present-day Northeast region, the birthplace of the Manchurian people. The station was the first stop on the way from Russia to China.
So the name "Manchuria Station", the Russian translation of "Manchuria", when the Russian transliteration into Chinese, it is removed from the pronunciation of the end of the light "Ya", and become "Manchuria". When this Russian transliteration was translated into Chinese, the end sound "Ya" was dropped and it became "Manzhouli". Later, as the city grew, the name of the station replaced the old name "Holguin Prague" and became the name of the border city, which is still in use today.
Expanded Information
Manzhouli, one of the five county-level cities of Hulunbeier, is a planned city in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and is located in Dongshan Street. Is China's largest land transportation port city, is the State Council identified as a national key development and opening up the pilot area, border tourism pilot area. Within the territory of Manzhouli Port is China's largest land port.
Manzhouli is bordered by Mongolia in the west and Russia in the north. The jurisdiction covers an area of 732 square kilometers, with a population of 300,000, inhabited by more than 20 ethnic groups, including Mongolians, Han Chinese, Hui, Chao, and Russians. There are border economic cooperation zone, China-Russia Mutual Trade Zone, Donghu District, International Logistics Industrial Park, Ouljin District, five management areas.
Manzhouli originally known as "Holezin Prague", the Mongolian meaning "exuberant springs". 1901 due to the construction of the East Qing Railway and get the Russian name "Manchuria", phonetically translated into Chinese as "Manzhouliya". In 1901, due to the construction of the East Ching Railway, it was given the Russian name "Manzhouliya", which was transliterated into Chinese as "Manzhouli". Manzhouli is a port city with a hundred years of history, blending the flavors of China, Russia and Mongolia, and is known as the "Window on East Asia".
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