Tianzhen

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天鎮 / 天镇.

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Tianzhen

  1. A county of Datong, Shanxi, China.
    • , Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 223:
      On August 27th the Court crossed the Shansi border, and spent the night at T'ien-chen hsien. The local Magistrate, a Manchu, had committed suicide after hearing of the fall of Mukden and other Manchurian cities; and the town was in a condition of ruinous disorder.]
    • 2014, Kim Hunter Gordon, editor, Datong: A Historical Guide‎, Matric International Publishing, →ISBN, page 274:
      Stretches of wall run through what is modern Tianzhen county, heading boldly into the Inner Mongolia to the east.
    • 2015 April 4, “Just a little bit richer”, in The Economist‎, archived from the original on 2020-08-12, China‎:
      Its mud-and-brick buildings, and its setting among dusty hills in the north-eastern corner of Shanxi province, offer little to the occasional visitor to distinguish it from countless other parts of China where hard work brings but a meagre living. Yet Tianzhen county, of which Dingjiayan is a part, is one of just 592 areas that the central government designates as “impoverished”.

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  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tienchen or T’ien-chen”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1911, column 1
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