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English
Proper noun
Chequiam
- Obsolete spelling of Zhejiang.
1613, Samuel Purchas, “ Of the Kingdome of China.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. , London: William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, , →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 366:It is diuided into fifteene Prouinces; ſixe whereof border on the Sea, Cantan, Foquien, Chequiam, Nanquin, Xantum, Paquin: the other nine bee inland, Quianſi, Huquam, Honan, Xienſi, Xanſi, Suchuon, Queicheu, Iunan, Coanſi.