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    Yatung or Yadong, also known as Shasima (Tibetan: ཤར་གསིང་མ་, Wylie: shar gsing ma, THL: sharsingma, simplified Chinese: 下司马镇; traditional Chinese: 下司馬鎮;...
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    Old Yatung (Chinese: 老亚东; pinyin: Lǎo Yàdōng), originally just "Yatung", with a native Tibetan spelling of Nyatong or Myatong, is a location 2 miles west...
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    town of Yatung. The joint river is known in English by its Bhutanese name Amo Chu. (Tibetans continue to call it Khambu Machu.) The town of Yatung (also...
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    1890 and Younghusband expedition, the British established trading posts at Yatung and Lhasa, along with military detachments to protect them. These trade...
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    A young Englishman, member of the Secret Intelligence Service, in Yatung, Tibet, photographed by Ernst Schäfer in 1939...
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    east of Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim, and 35 kilometres (22 mi) from Yatung Shasima, the headquarters of the Yadong County (or the Chumbi Valley). Nathu...
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    main Chumbi valley, on the west bank of the Amo Chu river. A stream called Yatung Chu that brings waters from the Jelep La and Nathu La passes on the Sikkim...
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    established autonomy for the Limbu subbas. Phuntsog moved his capital from Yatung to Yuksam and instituted the first centralised administration. The kingdom...
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    Chumbi Valley until the Chinese take-over of Tibet in 1950, after which Yatung became its headquarters. Chumbi is also associated with the Sikkim's royal...
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    overloading the dak bungalows, they travelled in two groups and arrived in Yatung at the beginning of April. Phari Dzong was reached on 5 April. After negotiations...
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  • agencies in New Delhi, Calcutta, and Kalimpong and Indian trade Agencies at Yatung, Gyantse, and Gartok. These trade agencies "would enjoy freedom from arrest...
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    Lukhangwa, a senior lay official, by the Dalai Lama before he left for Yatung in the Chumbi Valley in December 1950 following the Chinese invasion of...
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  • tracks were in Mandarin, in keeping with a strong involvement by Zhang Yatung as arranger and ..." Edward L. Davis, Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese...
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    miles (560 km) took them from Darjeeling to Kalimpong, Guatong, Jelep La, Yatung, Phari, Tang La, Donka La, Kampa Dzong, Tinki Dzong, Tinki La, Chiblung...
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    needed] The Tibetans were aware of the expedition, and a Tibetan general at Yatung wondered about British intentions. Colonel Younghusband replied, on 6 December...
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    with Tibet, White was asked to investigate the location known as "Yatung" (Old Yatung) in the Chumbi Valley for the establishment of a trade mart. He subsequently...
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    of 1906. The main points of the treaty allowed the British to trade in Yatung, Gyantse, and Gartok while Tibet was to pay a large indemnity of 7,500,000...
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    kukua/kua na yaw 'That is yours': kuam yatun 'That is hers': kuana yari/kuana yatung 'This': yaw, ye, yawe 'That' (item by person being spoken to): yatun or...
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    further furious when they were told that the Dalai Lama’s seal was still in Yatung with him. The Chinese made new seal for Ngabo Shapé to stamp the document...
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    the Nyang Chu valley on the ancient trade routes from the Chumbi Valley, Yatung and Sikkim, which met here. From Gyantse, routes led to Shigatse downstream...
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    1890 and Younghusband expedition, the British established trading posts at Yatung and Lhasa, along with military detachments to protect them. These trade...
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    India while also allowing India to maintain three trade posts in Tibet at Yatung, Gyantse, and Gartok. In exchange, India was to allow China to keep three...
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  •  Sikkim Gangtok Nathu La 16 September 1958  Bhutan September 1958  Tibet Yatung Paro October 1958  Nepal 11-14 June 1959  Iran Tehran September 1959  Turkey...
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    miles (4.8 km) along the Ammo Chu, and bivouacked for the night at Myatong (Yatung). The Tibetans were disorganized and did not oppose the enemy's progress...
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    India pursued by two hundred Chinese cavalrymen, and rode to Phari and then Yatung in the Chumbi Valley, where he was given protection in the Trade Agency...
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    the world, although British representatives were stationed in Gyantse, Yatung and Gartok (western Tibet) after the Younghusband Mission. These so-called...
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  • was an Indian civil servant and a former Indian Trade Agent at Gartok and Yatung regions. He was born on 24 July 1905 at Burfu, in the Johar Valley of the...
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    Postal Agencies at Gartok, in Western Tibet, and Gyantse, Pharijong and Yatung, along the Indian trade route to Lhasa. Chinese forces occupied Tibet in...
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  • President Roosevelt. On their way to Lhasa the expedition made contact in Yatung with a member of the Pandatsang family of Kham which controlled Tibet's...
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  • In 1895 the Commissioner of the Rajashahi Division was told flatly at Yatung that, as the Convention was made by the Chinese only, the Tibetan Government...
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