Tannu Tuva

English

Alternative forms

• Tannu-Tuva

Proper noun

Tannu Tuva

2. (historical) A partially recognized Marxist-Leninist people's republic northwest of Mongolia that existed between 1921 and 1944; roughly coterminous with modern Tuva; official names Tannu Tuva People's Republic (1921–1926) and Tuvan People's Republic (1926–1944).
   • 1957, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy‎^[1], New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 144:

     As related above, when Soviet Russia went to war with Germany in June 1941 the puppet regime in Tannu Tuva immediately declared war against Germany. Not long afterward Tannu Tuva was annexed to form part of the Soviet territory. By August 1945 Moscow applied the same formula to Outer Mongolia.

Further reading

• “Tannu Tuva”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.