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Manchuria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3013 words) |
 | Manchuria was the traditional homeland of the Xianbei, the Khitan and the Jurchen, who built several dynasties in both Manchuria and China proper, and most recently and famously the Manchus, who lent their name to the region and, in the 17th century, conquered and ruled China until the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in 1911. |
| Manchuria borders Mongolia in the west, Siberia in the north, China proper to the south and North Korea in the east. |
| Russians, especially Cossack farmers of Khabarovsk, who would lose their plowlands on the islands, were unhappy about the apparent loss of territory, while news and information regarding the border treaty were censored in Mainland China by the PRC government. |
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