Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word TUMEN

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Definitions of TUMEN

1. Alternative form of toman ("army unit").
2. A river forming part of the border between in Jilin, China and, North Korea and the border between, Rasŏn, North Korea and, Khasansky, Primorsky, Russia.
3. A county-level city in Yanbian, Jilin, China

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Examples of Using TUMEN in a Sentence

• In that same year, Tumen put down a revolt of the Tiele tribes against the Rouran Khaganate, their overlords.
• The region is bordered by China to the north and Russia to the northeast, across the Amnok (Yalu) and Duman (Tumen) rivers, and is separated from Japan to the southeast by the Korea Strait.
• It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen rivers, and South Korea to the south at the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
• It borders three countries: China along the Yalu (Amnok) River, Russia along the Tumen River, and South Korea to the south.
• Together with the Tumen River to its east, and a small portion of Paektu Mountain, the Yalu forms the border between China and North Korea.
• The krai has Russia's only border with North Korea, along the Tumen River in Khasansky District in the southwestern corner of the krai.
• The mountain notably has a caldera that contains a large crater lake called Heaven Lake, and is also the source of the Songhua, Tumen, and Yalu rivers.
• In Tumen, Jilin, a riverfront promenade has restaurants where patrons can gaze across the river into North Korea.
• The Chahar became a tumen of six tumen Mongols under Dayan Khan and were led by his successors, thus becoming personal appanage of the Northern Yuan monarchs.
• Yingge died during the conquest of Helandian (曷懶甸; present-day Hamgyong Province, North Korea) after pacifying the Tumen River basin.
• A Mongolian tumen under the leadership of Büri entered Transylvania via the Olt Valley, near Făgăraș, from the direction of Sibiu, which was conquered on 11 April.
• It is separated from the Russian Far East to the north by the Amur, Argun, and Ussuri Rivers; from North Korea to the south by the Yalu and Tumen Rivers; and from Inner Mongolia to the west by the Greater Khingan and parts of the Xiliao River.
• Dayan Khan created the Khalkha Tumen out of Mongols residing in the territory of present-day central Mongolia and northern part of Inner Mongolia.
• After several attempts by the Kangxi Emperor to negotiate the issue, in 1712, the Joseon of Korea and Qing of China agreed to delineate the boundaries of the two countries at the Yalu and Tumen Rivers.
• Temujin then allegedly attacked a Kerait clan, the Tumen Tubegen, and a large part of the survivors became Toghrul's followers.
• Mudanjiang also became a military and administrative center going by the name Botankou, particularly after the railway from Tumen to Jiamusi was constructed in 1933.
• However, Hulagu withdrew with the bulk of his forces west of Bagdad, leaving only a garrison of 10,000 (a single tumen) with his lieutenant, Kitbuga.
• In 1677, Manchus sealed the area north of Baekdu Mountain, Yalu River, and Tumen River as a conservation area of their ancestors' birthplace, and prohibited Koreans and people of other non-Manchu ethnicities from entering the area.
• Ashina was born in 551, shortly before her grandfather Tumen (Bumin Qaghan), initially a vassal of Rouran, declared independence from Rouran and established a separate Göktürk state as its Illig Qaghan.
• In the 1380s the tribe migrated southward towards the lower valley of the Tumen River and settled in Womuho (present day Hoeryong).

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