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English
Etymology
From a modified form of the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 旅順口／旅顺口 (Lǚshùnkǒu).
Proper noun
Lyushunkou
- Alternative form of Lüshunkou
2014 November 4, Joseph Hammond, “Siege of Port Arthur: Verdun in Manchuria”, in The Diplomat, archived from the original on 11 November 2014:If Mukden sought to reflect the battles of the past, the five-month Siege of Port Arthur anticipated the future of war. The Siege of Port Arthur, as China’s Lyushunkou District was then known, proved to be iconoclastic.
2018, Carl Douglass, “Even More Tense Times”, in The Mysterious Alexandra Tarasova-Yusupov, →ISBN, →OCLC:On the legal documents, he carried, Boris's last ports of call were Lyushunkou District/Port Arthur and Dalian on the tip of Manchuria-a two or three-day sailing trip around the southern tip of Chosŏn from the Yellow Sea and back to Vladivostok on the Sea of Japan.
2020, Hitoshi Tanaka, Historical Narratives of East Asia in the 21st Century, →ISBN, →OCLC:The so-called Twenty-one Demands that extended the lease of Lyushunkou and Dalian had a section that invalidated the "Treaty regarding South Manchuria and East Mongolia” (established 1915), and there was a movement to return these lands to China, including the organization of anti-Japanese boycotts.
2020 August 10, “Feature: Guardians of deadly vipers on China's Snake Island”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on August 10, 2020:In Lyushunkou District of Dalian, around 11 km away from the nature reserve, stands a museum that tells the stories behind Snake Island.
2021, “DALNIY — A COMMERCIAL PORT OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE ON THE SHORES OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN”, in cyberleninka.ru, →DOI, archived from the original on February 24, 2021:The Kwantung Territory became the first and last colony of the Russian Empire located outside its borders. The port of Lyushunkou, already widely known as Port Arthur, was destined to become a military base of Russia, while the port of Dalianvan, which was named “Dalniy”, was intended to be a commercial port.
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