Liaotung
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Liaotung
- Alternative form of Liaodong
- 1891, John Ross, History of Corea[1], London: Elliot Stock, →OCLC, →OL, page 6:
- When the Han state ship burst up, numberless living planks struggled for the uppermost place. Among them the Wei became dominant in north-east China, marched against, overthrew the grandson of Goong, and annexed Liaotung to the northern dynasty.
- 1954 June 21, “Government Centralization Set for Communist China”, in The Christian Science Monitor[2], Atlantic edition, volume 46, number 174, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, column 5:
- In northeast China, Liaotung and Liaosi Provinces will be merged into newly reconstituted Liaoning Province.
- 1954 [1950 December], “List of Border Violations by United States Planes”, in Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments [Activities of United States Citizens in Red China] (Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate Eighty-Third Congress Second Session on Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments)[3], number 23, Washington: Government Printing Office, sourced from China Monthly Review, →OCLC, page 2013:
- At 15:07 hours on October 13, two American planes circled and reconnoitered over Yenkiang village of Changpai County of Liaotung Province.
- 2002, Donald Keene, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912[4], New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 588:
- The Russians had promised to withdraw in three stages. One stage had been completed, and the railway between Shan-hai-kwan and Ying-k’ou (Newchang) had been returned, but all this meant was that the Russians had moved their troops from Liao-hsi, a region where they had few interests, to their major base at Liaotung.
- 2011, The Crimes of Stalin: the Murderous Career of the Red Tsar[5], Arcturus Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 53:
- When Russia reneged on an agreement to withdraw its troops from Manchuria, the Japanese fleet launched a surprise raid on Port Arthur. At the same time, the Japanese army overran Korea and the Liaotung Peninsula before making a land attack on Port Arthur, which eventually fell to the invaders.
Translations
[edit]Liaodong — see Liaodong
Further reading
[edit]- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Liaotung”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[6], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1049, column 1
- “Liaotung”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Liaotung”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Liaotung”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Liaotung” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.