Mongolië

See also: Mongolie

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Mongolië n

1. Mongolia (a country in East Asia)
2. (chiefly historical) Mongolia (a Mongolian-speaking geographic region in East Asia, including the country of Mongolia (Outer Mongolia), the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia in China, and sometimes also Buryatia, Tuva and the Altai Republic in Russia)
   • 1786 [1779–1783], E.A.W. Zimmerman, “De krop-gazelle [The goitered gazelle]”, in Pieter Boddaert, transl., Geographische historie van den mensch en der alom verbreidde viervoetige dieren. [A geographical history of mankind and of the universally distributed four-legged animals.]‎^[1], volume 2, Utrecht: G.T. van Paddenburg, en zoon, translation of Geographische Geschichte des Menschen und der allgemein verbreiteten vierfüssigen Thiere (in German), page 138:

     Bewoont Daurien, Mongolien, de woestijnen tusschen Tibet en China.

     Inhabits Dauria, Mongolia, the deserts between Tibet and China.