Owen Lattimore
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LOCATION: Pawtucket, RI, United States
Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Leeds, England, 1963–70. Author of Mongols of Manchuria; Inner Asian Frontiers of China; and others.
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Mongolia, historically Outer Mongolia, landlocked country located in north-central Asia. It is roughly oval in shape, measuring 1,486 miles (2,392 km) from west to east and, at its maximum, 782 miles (1,259 km) from north to south. Mongolia’s land area is roughly equivalent to that of the countries…
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