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Lanchow
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English
Etymology
Postal romanization of en cmn - 蘭州Lanzhou, conventional Lanchow, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Pronunciation
länʹjōʹ
Proper noun
en Lanzhou.
en https://archive.org/details/northamreview226miscrich/ 1928 The Danger Line in the Far East w:North American Review w:Owen Lattimore New York 226 492 THERE is only one way in which open competition could be established once more in the interior markets which are accessible to Russia. That would be by constructing a railway into Kansu Province, either by completing the present branch line from the Pekin-Hankow line through Shensi, or by continuing the Pekin-Suiyuan line, which now stops at the Yellow River, up past Ninghsia to Lanchow.
en https://archive.org/details/concisegeography0000unse/ 1964 zh:中国地理概述<t:A Concise Geography of China> zh:任育地<t:Jen Yu-ti> w:Foreign Languages Press Peking 198 https://archive.org/details/concisegeography0000unse/page/198 Lanchow, the provincial capital, has been for centuries known as an important crossing place on the Yellow River which flows through the city. Both railway and road bridges have now been built across the river. These bridges add considerably to the beauty of the landscape around Lanchow.With convenient access to communications and sources of coal, water power and animal products, Lanchow has excellent prospects for the development of heavy and light industries.
en 1966 1957 Михаил Иосифович Сладковский Border Trade and Commercial Relations Between Russia and China from the Middle fo the 18th to the Middle of the 19th Centuries M. Roublev G. Grause History of Economic Relations Between Russia and China Ocherki Ekonomicheskikh Othosnenii SSSR c Kitaem https://archive.org/details/historyofeconomi0000slad/ Jerusalem Israel Program for Scientific Translations 992538 65 https://archive.org/details/historyofeconomi0000slad/page/65/ Trade caravans traveled from Kuldja to distant Peking, passing through Urumchi [Tihwa] and Lanchow [Kaolan].
en https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ 1972 China's Changing Map Theodore Shabad w:Frederick A. Praeger New York 70 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/70/ An aluminum reduction plant was inaugurated in November, 1959, at Lanchow in Kansu Province, but its future development is unclear in view of failure to complete the planned low-cost sources of hydroelectric power on the Yellow River.
en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1973-09-02_14_34/ September 2, 1973 L. Chen Another Lin Piao incident? Free China Weekly XIV 34 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1973-09-02_14_34/page/n1/ Lanchow near the source of the Yellow River and just below the Great Walls was described as a congested center of railroad transportation.
en 2014 w:Dana Stabenow Everything Under the Heavens https://archive.org/details/everythingunderh0000stab/ Portland, Oregon Gere Donovan Press 9781495317019 870546189 113 https://archive.org/details/everythingunderh0000stab/page/113/ By the time they reached Lanchow, the Golden City, the caravan had settled into the formation it would take for the rest of the journey.
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