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English
Etymology
From Mandarin 秦州 (Qínzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻin²-chou¹.
Proper noun
Ch'in-chou
- Alternative form of Qinzhou
1969, Michael Sullivan, The Cave Temples of Maichishan, University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 4:A broken stone tablet found in Cave 127 records that, some time between 503 and 516, the Loyang monk Fa-sheng came and commissioned the carving out of a Buddha niche. According to an inscription in Cave 166, a Buddha image was commissioned by the military commander and prefect of Ch'in-chou (modern T'ian-shui) at about the same time.
1971, Albert Richard Davis, “The Years of Fullness”, in Tu Fu, Twayne Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 67:Once more he was beginning to talk of hermitage, and he took his family first to Ch’in-chou (modern T’ien-shui, Kansu) more than three hundred miles west of Hua-chou.
1994, Herbert Franke, Denis Twitchett, The Cambridge History of China, volume 6, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172:Backed by the thirteen Che-lung tribes, another group associated with Liang-chou, P'an-lo-chih's elevation to the leadership of Liu-ku probably resulted from the support of the Sung authorities in Ch'in-chou (modern T'ien-shui, Kansu), who may well have viewed him as a stronger deterrent to Li Chi-ch'ien than his predecessor had been.
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