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Ulan Bator
Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ulan Bator, or Ulaan Baator, or Ulaanbaatar,
is the capital of Mongolia.
Names
Ulan Bator has had numerous names in its history.
From 1639-1706, it was known as Örgöö
(Mongolian: Örgöö, residence),
and from 1706-1911 as Ikh Khüree, Da Khüree or
simply Khüree (Mongolian:
Khüree = "great camp").
Its Chinese name was Kulun
(pinyin: Kúlún).
Upon independence in 1911, with both the
secular government and the Bogd Khan's palace
present, the city's name changed to
(Mongolian: Niislel Khüree = "capital").
When the city became the capital of the new
Mongolian People's Republic in 1924, its name
was changed to Ulaanbaatar ("red hero"), in
honour of Mongolia's national hero Damdin
Sükhbaatar, whose warriors liberated
Mongolia from Ungern von Sternberg's troops
and Chinese occupation shoulder-to-shoulder
with the Soviet Red Army.
His statue still adorns Ulan
Bator's central square.
In Europe and North America, Ulan Bator
was generally known as Urga (after the
Russian form for Örgöö)
or sometimes Kuren before 1924,
and Ulan Bator afterwards.
The Russian spelling is different from
the Mongolian because it was defined
phonetically, and the Cyrillic script
was only introduced in Mongolia
seventeen years later.
For a more information about
Ulan Bator see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page was retrieved and condensed from
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulan_Bator)
see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, February 2008.
All text is available under the terms of the
GNU Free Documentation License
(see
Copyrights for details).
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