A record of Bos primigenius from the Quaternary of the Aba Tibetan Autonomous Region.

There are about 200, 000 Qiang people today in western Sichuan, predominantly in the five counties of Maoxian, Wenchuan, Lixian, Beichuan and Heishui, of the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture.

Aba ) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous prefecture of north-west Sichuan Province.

Tibetan region of Lho-Jang and Gyarong in Amdo, and Ngapa ( Chinese Aba ) and Golok in Amdo, were still independent of Chinese hegemony, despite the creation on paper of Qinghai Province in 1927.

Kirti Gompa or Gerdeng Monastery, the largest Tibetan Monastery in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture | Aba ( Ngawa ) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China.

Ngawa City, also Ngawa or Aba City ( ), is the main city in Ngawa ( Aba ) County, within the Ngawa ( Aba ) Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Sichuan, China.

Ngawa ( Aba ) County has 70, 000 inhabitants, about 8, 000 of them Tibetan monks.

** Aba County, county in Aba Prefecture, Sichuan, China

Aba is the biggest transport hub within the prefecture.

** Aba, Sichuan, main town in Aba County

The Narshi Gompa, a Bön po monastery in Aba, Sichuan | Aba, Sichuan.

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* Itu Aba Island, in the South China Sea

* Taiping Island ( 太平島 ), or Itu Aba Island, the largest of the Spratly Islands controlled by the Republic of China ( Taiwan )

She also appeared on March 9, 2008, with Pink Martini at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City ; she sang a duet of " Aba Daba Honeymoon " with lead singer China Forbes.

His declaration was met with violent and unfriendly reactions from several neighboring countries especially the Republic of China ( ROC ; on Taiwan since 1949 ) when on September 24, 1956 it effectively garrisoned the nearby island of Itu Aba and intercepted Cloma ’ s men and vessels found within its immediate waters.

It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people.

The Special District later became the province of Xikang, incorporating the areas inhabited by Yi, Tibetan and Qiang ethnic minorities to its west, and eastern part of today's Tibet Autonomous Region.

Xiongnu confined to Outer Mongolia and cut off from the Qiang on the Tibetan plateau.

Although both groups are descendents of the Qiang people, together with Tibetans, Pumi and Yi, and notwithstanding very striking resemblances between their respective languages, the two groups are now understood to be culturally distinct, the Nakhi more influenced by the very patriarchal Han Chinese culture, the Mosuo more influenced by Tibetan culture and their own matriarchal family practices.

The Nakhi are believed to be the descendants of the nomadic Qiang, an ethnic group inhabiting the Tibetan plateau since ancient times.

At the legendary time when the Qiang people moved into Sichuan from the Tibetan Plateau, they placed white stones on every hilltop and crossroads, for they did not want to forget the route leading back to their original homeland.

Zhang insisted on turning southward to establish a new base in the regions inhabited by Tibetan and Qiang minorities, which later proved to be a disaster, causing Zhang to lose over 75 % of his force and eventually forced him to return to the communist base in Shaanxi, as Mao correctly pointed out the way it should.

" Following this, he united with the country of Yangtong to defeat the ' Azha, or Tuyuhun, and then conquered two more tribes of Qiang before threatening Songzhou with an army of ( according to the Chinese ) more than 200, 000 men ( 100, 000 according to Tibetan sources ).

Its administrative area ranges in latitude from 30 ° 42 ' to 33 ° 03 ' N and in longitude from 103 ° 45 ' to 105 ° 43 ' E. Bordering prefectures are Guangyuan to the northeast, Nanchong to the east, Suining to the south, Deyang to the southwest, Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture to the west.

Several minorities live in Mianyang, such as the Tibetan and Qiang people.

Its latitude ranges from 28 ° 51 ′ 10 ″ — 30 ° 56 ′ 40 ″ N and its longitude from 101 ° 56 ′ 26 ″— 103 ° 23 ′ 28 ″ E. Neighbouring prefectures are, starting from the northeast and moving counter-clockwise, Chengdu ( NE ), Meishan ( E ), Leshan ( SE ), Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture ( S ), Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture ( W ), and Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture ( N ).

Category: Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture

Communes were established in the Tibetan Autonomous Region ( Tibet had previously been exempt from China's period of land reform ) and reimposed in other minority areas.

According to the China Exploration and Research Society, the source of the Yellow River is at 34 ° 29 ' 31. 1 " N, 96 ° 20 ' 24. 6 " E in the Bayan Har Mountains near the eastern edge of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

The Tibet Autonomous Region is located on the Tibetan Plateau, the highest region on earth.

He set out six requirements to improve ' existing conditions ', including the increase of state funds to the Autonomous Region, improvements in education, and " efforts to revive Tibetan culture ".

In the Autonomous regions of China many children of the country's major ethnic minorities attend public schools where the medium of instructions is the local language, such as e. g. Uyghur or Tibetan.

In 1988, Hu was transferred to become Party Regional Committee Secretary of the Tibetan Autonomous Region, the restive area's number-one figure, while also taking on the role of Political Commissar of the local People's Liberation Army units.

Image: LitangMonastery. jpg | A train of pack yaks at Litang monastery in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China

* Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, prefecture of Qinghai Province, China

For example, Tibetan has official status within the Tibet Autonomous Region, Mongolian has official status within Inner Mongolia and Uyghur has official status within Xinjiang.

Today, 71 counties in Tibet Autonomous Region are rendered as " Dzongs " in the Tibetan language.

In 262, Jiang Wei, despite Liao Hua's opposition, again attacked Wei, targeting Taoyang ( 洮陽 ; in present-day Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture ( Hezuo ), Gansu ), but was defeated by Deng Ai.

* Ernst Steinkellner and Xuezhu Li ( еds ), Vasubandhu's Pañcaskandhaka ( Wien, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2008 ) ( Sanskrit Texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region, 4 ).

Ethnically related to the Tibetans in the Muli Tibetan Autonomous County and Yanyuan in Sichuan, the Pumi are recognized as an official minority nationality unique to Yunnan, with a population of 30, 000.

There is also a sparse distribution of Nu in Weixi County in the Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Zayu County in Tibet Autonomous Region, particularly at the border between Yunnan and Tibet.

The Tibetan Plateau (), also known as the Qinghai-Tibetan ( Qingzang ) Plateau () or Himalayan Plateau is a vast, elevated plateau in Central Asia or East Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province in western China, as well as part of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir.

Qinghai Lake is sandwiched between Hainan and Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefectures in northeastern Qinghai.

The vast Haixi ( Mstho nub ) Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, to the west of the Blue Lake, also has a minority Tibetan population ( ca.

The movement is not supported by the 14th Dalai Lama, who although having advocated it from 1961 to the late 1970s, proposed a sort of high-level autonomy in a speech in Strasbourg in 1988, and has since then restricted his position to either autonomy for the Tibetan people in the Tibetan Autonomous Region within China, or for the autonomy to extend also to areas of neighboring Chinese provinces inhabited by Tibetans.