Anlu

An·lu
A1N1L1U1
/ˌɑːnˈluː/

proper noun

A county-level city of Xiaogan, Hubei, China.

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proper noun

alternative An-lu

  1. A county-level city of Xiaogan, Hubei, China.

    Workers work at the construction site of a makeshift hospital in Anlu city, which is under the administration of Xiaogan city, in Central China's Hubei province, Feb 11, 2020.

    2020 February 12, “Xiaogan makeshift hospital under construction”, in State Council of the People's Republic of China, archived from the original on 27 Jun 2022
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    In Hupeh District it is at work in fifteen counties: […] Anlu, […] So far as the foreign staff is concerned there were no men added in 1915 and only three ladies: Miss Weaver for evangelistic work in Wuchang, Miss Stephenson for the Anlu Hospital, and Miss McCord for evangelistic work at Anlu.

    1916, George A. Clayton, “Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (1852)”, in China Mission Year Book 1916, volume 7th, Shanghai: Christian Literature Society for China, →OCLC, page 119

    Chu conferred with Hsü Ta and Ch’ang Yü-ch’un at Nanking on 23 April. The only ex-Han territories still free from Ming control were the cities of the Han River valley, of which Hsiangyang and Anlu were the most important.

    1982, Edward L. Dreyer, “The Rise of the Ming Empire, 1352–1368”, in Early Ming China: A Political History, 1355–1435, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 55

    On 16 February Emperor Zhu Yuan Zhang ordered General Deng Yu to take the troops in Xiangyang (now Xiangyang, Hubei Province) and Anlu (now Anlu, Hubei Province) northward to conquer Henan Province.

    2016, Hung Hing Ming, “Zhu Yuan Zhang Founds The Ming Dynasty”, in From the Mongols to the Ming Dynasty: How a Begging Monk Became Emperor of China, Zhu Yuan Zhang, New York: Algora Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170

Origin

  1. Mandarin安陸 /安陆
  2. EnglishAnlu

From the Postal Map romanization of the Mandarin 安陸 /安陆 (Ānlù).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 安陸 /安陆
  • 安陸 /安陆 (on¹ luk⁶)county-level city in central China
Chinese Mandarin 安陸 /安陆
  • 安陸 /安陆 (Ānlù)county-level city in central China

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