Lungchow

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English

Etymology

From Mandarin 龍州／龙州 (Lóngzhōu).

Proper noun

Lungchow

  1. Dated form of Longzhou.
    • 1907, The Chinese Empire‎, London: Morgan & Scott, →OCLC, →OL, page 278:
      Lungchow.—Farther west than Nanning, and situated on the " Left River," a tributary of the "West River, is Lungchow, opened as a treaty port in 1887, after the Franco-Chinese War. It has not yet been connected with Hanoi by rail, as intended, on account of the reluctance of the Chinese to give the French a foothold in KWANGSI. The terminus of the railway is over the border near Lang- son, but a road connects with Lungchow, 35 miles away.
    • 1925, Harry A. Franck, Roving Through Southern China‎, The Century Company, →OCLC, page 355:
      It was my luck to reach Lungchow just a day or two after the departure of the little steamer that came up from Nanning every week or two.
    • 1969, King C. Chen, Vietnam and China, 1938-1954‎, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 202:
      One unit was unexpectedly attacked in early December by local Chinese and Viet-Minh Communists from the north and the south at P'ingmeng and P'ingerhkuan (a Chinese border town about 40 miles from Lungchow), and was wiped out.

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