Ningsia

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Etymology

From Mandarin 寧夏／宁夏 (Níngxià).

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Ningsia

  1. Obsolete spelling of Ningxia.
    • 1940 March 11, “China's Ningsia Province Penetrated by Japanese Troops”, in Geographic News Bulletins‎, volume 19, number 4, National Geographic Society, page 8?:
      Automobiles are used in some parts of eastern Ningsia, but the roads are primitive. Many motor roads are mere tracks in the desert, their bridges built with a gap down the middle to prevent horsedrawn carts from using them.
    • 1953, James Ramsey Ullman, The Sands of Karakorum‎, J. B. Lippincott Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70:
      "Where?"
      "To Ningsia."
      "Ningsia?"
      "You do not know it, perhaps? It is the capital of the province of the same name. To the northwest of here, near the border of Mongolia."
    • 1975 May 4, “Military defection”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XVI, number 17, Taipei, page 3:
      A Chinese Communist battalion stationed in Ningsia defected to the Russians in Outer Mongolia last October as a result of Moscow’s systematic undermining of troop morale of Maoist forces deployed border, an intelligence source disclosed April 30.

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