Qin'an
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English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 秦安 (Qín'ān).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Qin'an
- A county of Tianshui, Gansu, in northwestern China.
- , Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page iv, 12:
- Likewise, the magistrate of Ch’in-an county in Kansu thought it by no means unreasonable from the fiscal point of view to report in 1535 so disproportionate a population as one of 12,424 males and 6,099 females.
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- , Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 30:
- In 1967, 17 bronzes of the Chin Dynasty¹ (221-207 B.C.) were excavated at Shangyuanchia, Chinan County.]
- 1998, “Li Te ”, in Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom , Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117:
- Linwei, eighty li southeast of Qin’an county in Gansu, was the administrative center of Lueyang commandery (Dushi fangyu jiyao 59/2596; Zang 1936:849.1, 1293.1).
- , HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 263, column 3:
- Dadiwan Site is located in the gentle hillsides on the south bank of Qingshui River in Qinan County, Tianshui City. The earliest site dates from 7,800 years ago, and the most recent site dates from 4,800 years ago.]
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Further reading
- Qin'an, Ch'in-an, Chin-an, Chinan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qin'an”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2546, column 2