Loyang

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A form of Luoyang — A prefecture-level city of Henan, China, near the Luo's confluence with the Yellow River; a former capital of China.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Luoyang.

    This was the general plan of a royal tomb in the Han dynasty, and students of Chinese archaeology may verify this record with the series of Han royal tombs still to be seen on the hillsides of Sian and Loyang (346).

    1967, Tê-kʻun Chêng, Archaeological Studies in Szechwan, Cambridge University Press, page 143
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    War, real but undeclared, broke out at Shanghai on January 28, 1932. Two days later the National government which Chiang Kai-shek had established five years before at Nanking was moved to Loyang, far from the menace of Japanese men-of-war on the Yangtse.

    1938, Robert Berkov, Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 146

    200 students in Loyang City, Honan Province, led by Liu Ching-yi, director of the cultural bureau of the province, paraded in the downtown area and shouted such slogans as “down with the small clique of ambitionists in the ‘central government,’ ” and “down the anti-revolutionists in the army.”

    1976 December 19, “Armed conflict incidents rise”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 50, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3

    After much debate back and forth, you and Three Finger Tong agree to seek out Li Shi-min. Together the two of you head for the city of Loyang, where you are welcomed into the army of the great hero of China. At last your dream is realized.

    1990, R.A. Montgomery, Chinese Dragons, Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 6

    Emperor Xuan Zong assigned General Bi Sichen to the east to guard the capital of Loyang, but An Lushan defeated the imperial forces that were hastily assembled....In the next year, Hui Qi, general of Emperor Dai Zong (Dai Tsung) (762-779) of the Tang dynasty, recovered Loyang, causing Shi Chaoyi to flee to Mozhou.

    2012, Kong Liu, “An-Shi, Rebellion of (755-763)”, in Xiaobing Li, editor, China at War, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 5

Origin

Borrowed from Mandarin 洛陽/洛阳 (Luòyáng).

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APA

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