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	Strait of Tartary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In this case it refers to the various peoples of Manchuria, which was historically called East Tartary in the English language.
		In Japan, the strait is named after Mamiya Rinzo, who sailed the strait in 1808, while Russian authors prefer to name it after Admiral Nevelskoi, who explored the area in 1848.
		Strait of Tartary is also a poem by Walter de la Mare, in which he speaks about Tartary as a land in Asia north of China.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strait_of_Tartary (169 words)

	Tartary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tartary was often divided into sections with prefixes denoting the name of the ruling power or the geographical location.
		Thus, western Siberia was Muscovite or Russian Tartary, eastern Turkestan (later Chinese Xinjiang) and Mongolia were Chinese or Cathay Tartary, western Turkestan (later Russian Turkestan) was known as Independent Tatary, and Manchuria was East Tartary.
		Russia is Tartary's approximate geographic counterpart on Terra, Antiterra's twin world apparently identical to "our" Earth, but doubly fictional in the context of the novel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tartary (262 words)

	Strait - Wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A strait is a narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water, and thus lies between two land masses.
		Straits usually lie on important shipping routes, and many wars have been fought for control of these straits.
		That is, while straits lie between two land masses and connects two larger bodies of water, isthmuses lie between two bodies of water and connects two larger land masses.
	wikipedia.findthelinks.com /st/Strait.html (522 words)

	SAKHALIN - LoveToKnow Article on SAKHALIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sakhalin is separated from the mainland by the narrow and shallow Strait of Tartary or Mamiya Strait, which often freezes in winter in its narrower part, and from Yezo (Japan) by the Strait of La Prouse.
		History.Sakhalin, which was under Chinese dominion until the I9th century, became known to Europeans from the travels of Martin Gerritz de Vries in the 17th century, and still better from those of La Prouse (1787) and Krusenstern (1805).
		Both, however, regarded it as a peninsula, and were unaware of the existence of the Strait of Tartary, which was discovered in 1809 by a Japanese, Mamiya Rinzo.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SAKHALIN.htm (863 words)

	Sakhalin: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Both, however, regarded it as a peninsula, and were unaware of the existence of the Mamiya Strait (Mamiya Strait: strait of tartary(gulf of tartary, gulf of tatary, tatar strait, tartar...
		Sakhalin is separated from the mainland by the narrow and shallow Mamiya Strait (Mamiya Strait: strait of tartary(gulf of tartary, gulf of tatary, tatar strait, tartar...
		Russia is in the process of building a 136 mile (219 km) pipeline (pipeline: A pipe used to transport liquids or gases) across the Tatar Strait (Tatar Strait: strait of tartary(gulf of tartary, gulf of tatary, tatar strait, tartar...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/sakhalin (2353 words)

	Strait Definition / Strait Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A strait is a narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water, and thus lies between two land massesA landmass is a large extent of land.
		The terms strait, channel, and passage can be synonymous and interchangeable, although channel the geographical meanings of this word, see channel (geography).
		Strait is the Gate "a searching analysis of the incompleteness and narrowness of the moral philosophy of Protestantism".
	www.elresearch.com /Strait (243 words)

	Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Sakhalin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Both, however, regarded it as a peninsula, and were unaware of the existence of the Mamiya Strait or Strait of Tartary, which was discovered in 1809 by Mamiya Rinzo.
		However, the Russian navigator Gennady Nevelskoy in 1849 definitively recorded the existence and navigability of this strait and andmdash; in defiance of Qing claim andmdash; Russian settlers established coal mines, administration facilities, schools, prisons, churches on the island.
		Sakhalin is separated from the mainland by the narrow and shallow Mamiya Strait or Strait of Tartary, which often freezes in winter in its narrower part, and from Hokkaido (Japan) by the Soya Strait or Strait of La Pérouse.
	www.upto11.net /generic_wiki.php?q=sakhalin (2026 words)

	Learn more about List of straits in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jacques Cartier Strait - between Anticosti Island and the Labrador Peninsula in Quebec
		Strait of Taiwan - between Taiwan and mainland China
		Strait of Tiran - between the Sinai peninsula and Saudi Arabia
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_straits.html (583 words)

	Strait of Tartary: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Strait of Tartary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Strait of Tartary: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Strait of Tartary
		Strait of Tatar (also Mamiya Strait and Strait of Nevelskoi) is a 6 km wide and 4-20 m deep strait dividing the Russian island of Sakhalin from the mainland Asia, connecting the Sea of Okhotsk on the north with the Sea of Japan on the south.
		The name Tatar, or Tartary comes from an out-of-date name for Asia.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ma/Mamiya-Strait.html (124 words)

	Strait of Tartary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		See also the Dictionary definition of Strait, of, Tartary
		It is 900 km long, 4-20 m deep, and 7.3 km wide in the narrowest place.
		In the Japanese literature, the strait is named after Mamiya Rinzo, who sailed the strait in 1808, while Russian authors prefer to name it after Admiral Nevelskoi, who explored the area in 1848.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Mamiya_Strait (70 words)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Strait of Tartary or Mamiya Strait between the
		Tsushima Strait between the islands of Kyushu and Tsushima; and the
		Korea Strait between Tsushima and the Korean peninsula.
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Sea_of_Japan.html (443 words)

	Tartary - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Eastward to Tartary : Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus (Vintage Departures)
		The Siberian Overland Route from Peking to Petersburg, through the Deserts and Steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, etc.
		Recollections of a Journey through Tartary, Thibet, and China, during the Years 1844, 1845, and 1846
	www.unipedia.info /Tartary.html (245 words)

	Sakhalin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sakhalin became known to Europeans from the travels of Ivan Moskvitin and Martin Gerritz de Vries in the 17th century, and still better from those of La Pérouse (1787) and Krusenstern (1805).
		The Russian navigator Gennady Nevelskoy in 1849 definitively established the existence and navigability of this strait.
		Russia is in the process of building a 136-mile pipeline across the Tatar Strait from Sakhalin Island to De-Kastri on the Russian mainland.
	www.aaaah.org /wiki/en/sa/Sakhalin.htm (1633 words)

	strait
		The terms strait, channel, and passage can be synonymous and interchangeable, although channel has other meanings.
		Straits can lie on important shipping routes, and wars have been fought for control of these straits.
		Numerous artificial channels, called canals, have been constructed to connect two bodies of water over land.
	www.fact-library.com /strait.html (132 words)

	Taiwan Strait or Taiwan Straits
		But the Taiwan Strait is just one strait, one body of water between Taiwan and China, and all maps call it "the Taiwan Strait." Other famous straits in the world include the Stait of Gilbraltor and the Bering Strait, among over 100 others.
		is flanked by the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Taiwan Straits to the...
		Most dictionaries in print and online show "strait" to be a singular word, except when used in the plural for more than one strait.
	taiwanstrait.blogspot.com /2005/02/its-called-taiwan-strait-folks-not.html (2658 words)

	SAKHALIN, or SAGHALIEN - Online Information article about SAKHALIN, or SAGHALIEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ainu name, Karafuto or Karaftu, has been restored to the island by the Japanese since 1905.
		Sakhalin is separated from the mainland by the narrow and shallow Strait of Tartary or Mamiya Strait, which often freezes in See also:
		peninsula, and were unaware of the existence of the Strait of Tartary, which was discovered in 1809 by a Japanese, Mamiya Rinzo.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SAC_SAR/SAKHALIN_or_SAGHALIEN.html (1173 words)

	Chekhov, Sakhalin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chekhov (Че́хов) is a town on the Sakhalin island Russia at the Strait of Tartary.
		The town was named Chekhov in honour the writer Anton Chekhov.
		The Problem of Genre and the Quest for Justice in Chekhov's the Island of Sakhalin (Studies in Slavic Language and Literature, V. Articles created at the same time
	www.freeglossary.com /Chekhov,_Sakhalin (111 words)

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