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  • The reinforcements for these campaigns, and for the garrisons which in the following decades were stationed in the Ili region and in the west of eastern Turkestan, marched along the road from Peking that leads northward through Mongolia to the far distant Uliassutai and Kobdo.

    A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

  • Siberian frontier from near Lake Kulun to the Altai, and includes the four Aimak, or Khanates, of the Khalkas, and the west Mongol territories under the jurisdiction of the Chinese military government at Ulaisut'ai, Kobdo, Tarnagatai, and Uriankhai.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Sha-mo. or desert of Gobi; the north-west region, a plateau connected with the Great Altaï, including Kobdo and Urga, and bounded on the S.E. by the Ektagh Altaï, (or Mongolian, or southern Altaï); the southwestern region of the great K'ingan, a long chain of mountains stretching from the Shara Muren to the Argún River, separating the plateau of Gobi from the Manchurian plains.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • The situation became worse when news arrived from Kobdo that the Chinese there had made a pogrom, killing some of the inhabitants and burning the whole town after a wild looting orgy.

    Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski 1910

  • During the following days these mountains around Kobdo heard many cries of misfortune, woe and death.

    Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski 1910

  • It was a detachment sent out from Urga by Baron Ungern to restore order in Uliassutai and to march on to Kobdo.

    Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski 1910

  • About halfway to Kobdo we came across the yurta of a shepherd on the shore of the small Lake of Baga

    Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski 1910

  • Colonel who with four officers were so impressed by the absence of Reds south of the Tannu Ola that they determined to work westward to Kobdo and then on to the camp on the Emil River where the Chinese authorities had interned six thousand of the forces of General Bakitch, which had come over into Mongolian territory.

    Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski 1910

  • How is it the Chinese can send their envoys from Urga and Kiakhta to Kobdo, asking for assistance, and the

    Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski 1910

  • With this servant we moved out one cold winter morning in the direction of Kobdo, just over three hundred miles, because from there we had received the disquieting rumours that the Red troops had entered

    Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski 1910

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