Helong
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See also: hélǒng
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 和龍／和龙 (Hélóng).
Proper noun
Helong
- A county-level city in Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China.
- , volume I, Tokyo: Miraisha, →OCLC, page 464:
- The tactics of the General culminated in victory in the battle of Hualatzu, Antu county in March 1940, the battle of Yangtsaokou, Tungnancha, Antu county in April, the battle of Shihliping, Holung county in May and the subsequent battle of Yulangtsun, Holung county.]
- 1980 [1937 March 29], Kim Il-sung, “Let Us Inspire the People with Hopes of National Liberation by Advancing with Large Forces into the Motherland”, in Kim Il Sung Works, volume 1, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 126:
- In this large-scale operation of advance into the homeland we plan to dispatch the KPRA in three directions: The main unit will cross the Amnok River and push towards Hyesan, a strongpoint of frontier guards of the Japanese imperialists; another unit is to skirt Mt. Paektu and push on, by way of Antu and Helong, to the northern border area adjoining the Tuman River; and the third unit is to advance as far as the Linjiang and Changbai areas on the shore of the Amnok River.
- 2015 April 30, Christopher Bodeen, “3 killed in Chinese town where North Koreans blamed in past”, in AP News, archived from the original on 26 May 2022:
- The Helong city government said a 55-year-old man surnamed Zhao, his 26-year-old daughter and another man aged 67 were killed Saturday. It said in a statement that police from the provincial to the local levels were investigating. […]
Calls to Helong city and Yanbian prefecture government spokesmen rang unanswered on Thursday.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Helong.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Helong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1263, column 3