Pok'ot'u

See also: Pokotu

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 博克圖／博克图, Wade–Giles romanization: Po²-kʻo⁴-tʻu².

Pronunciation

• enPR: pōʹko-to͞oʹ

Proper noun

Pok'ot'u

1. Alternative form of Boketu, Zalantuan, Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, China.
   • 1930 [1929 December 11], Arthur Henderson, quotee, “CHINA AND RUSSIA.”, in Parliamentary Debates: Official Report (Fifth Series)‎^[2], volume CCXXXIII, London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, column 438; quoted in modified form in Peter S. H. Tang, Russian and Soviet Policy in Manchuria and Outer Mongolia, 1911-1931‎^[3], Duke University Press, 1959, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 233:

     According to my information Soviet troops advanced as far as Chalainor some fifty miles within the western frontier of Manchuria, and Soviet gunboats raided Fuchin, fifty miles within the northern frontier. Pok’ot’u, about two hundred miles from the frontier, was bombed by Soviet aircraft.

   • 1965 May 19, Jessie Wang, “The Military Significance of the Sino-Soviet Border in the Far East”, in The Military Significance of the Sino-Soviet Border in the Far East‎^[4] (Thesis), Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, →OCLC, pages 113, 114:

     Fortifications prepared or planned by the Japanese were generally located to block critical areas or passes through the Greater Khingan Range. Examples of these were the fortifications from Hailar to Pok'ot'u which blocked the Manchouli—Tsitsihar—Harbin axis, and the fortifications between Arshan and Solun, which blocked the Arshan—Solun axis (Ma[p] 14) . […]
     A division-and-brigade-sized force crossed the border in a southerly direction in the vicinity of Manchouli and turned east toward Hailar. Then both of these forces continued eastward along the road and railroad toward Pok'ot'u (Map 15).

   • 1995, British Documents on Foreign Affairs: China, November 1929-December 1930‎^[5], University Publications of America, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 13:

     […] whole range of the Hingan Mountains between them and the advancing Soviet attacks. "Rail-head" on the western section of the line was now withdrawn to Pok'ot'u, or Buhedu, no less than 124 miles further east than Hailar. But by the […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pok'ot'u.