Chi-nan

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See also: Chinan

English

Map including CHI-NAN (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 濟南济南 (Jǐnán), Wade–Giles romanization: Chi³-nan².[1]

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Proper noun

Chi-nan

  1. Alternative form of Jinan
    • 1924, Guide to China, 2nd edition, Tokyo: Japanese Government Railways, →OCLC, page 153:
      Tsi-nan (Chi-nan) City, the terminus of the Shantung Railway, is also an important station on the Tientsin-Pukow Line. While travellers coming to Tsi-nan from Tientsin or Nanking arrive at Tsinan-fu station, 1 m.N. of Shang-pu (the trading quarter for foreigners and natives), those coming from the direction of Tsing-tau by the Shantung Railway alight at one of the following three stations: (1) the Tsinan station (Pl. C 3), the terminus, situated near Shang-pu and not for from Tsinanfu station (Pl. C 3) of the Tientsin-Pukow Line; (2) the Peikuan station (Pl. H 1) located outside the N. Gate and nearer the city proper; (3) Huangtai station, located outside the E. Gate, where travellers for the regions along the Huang-ho usually leave the train.
    • 1950, Lubor Hájek, Chinese Art, Czechoslovakia: Spring Books, →OCLC, page 9:
      Thus far it has been impossible to trace more accurately the development during these five centuries as archeological data, which would have provided a better basis for study, have been lacking. It has only been in the last few years that field work has given us some necessary information, particularly in Shantung Province, and it may be reasonably anticipated that further studies by the scholar, Wan Hsin-t'ang, from Chi-nan, will throw much light on this chapter of Chinese art.
    • 2003, “September 24”, in Today in History, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 539:
      1947 Chinese Communist forces under Chen Yi rout the garrison at Chi-nan. The victory opened the road to the vital railroad center of Suchow.

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References

  1. ^ Jinan, Wade-Giles romanization Chi-nan, in Encyclopædia Britannica

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