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Ning-te
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English
thumb|Map including NING-TE (NINGTEH) (Army Map Service AMS, 1954)
Etymology
From en cmn 寧德 reinforced by Wade-Giles romanization: Ning²-tê².
Proper noun
1
en Ningde.
en 1747 A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7545/ IV London w:Thomas Astley 2045114 34 https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7545/page/n63/ NOT far from Kyen-ning is Fu-ning chew ᵈ, a City of the ſecond Rank, remarkable for having Juriſdiction over two Cities of the third Order, viz. Fu-ngan hyen and Ning-te hyen. The Country where they are ſituated is of vaſt Extent, but over-run with Mountains; thoſe to the North of difficult Aſcent.
en 1970 1968 w:Shiba Yoshinobu w:Mark Elvin Commerce and Society in Sung China https://archive.org/details/commercesocietyi00shib/ 1992 0-89264-902-X 1181343913 97 https://archive.org/details/commercesocietyi00shib/page/97/ In Fukien there was a brisk circulation of the woods needed for building ships. Timber from the counties of Lo-yuan, Ning-te and Lien-changLien-chiang was made into rafts and sailed for North and South along the coasts.
en 1974 Ellsworth C. Carlson The Foochow Missionaries, 1847-1880 https://archive.org/details/foochowmissionar0000carl/ w:Harvard University Press 9780674307339 72-97832 1142126 5313093M 101 https://archive.org/details/foochowmissionar0000carl/page/101/ Wolfe pointed out that in the outstations the big gains were in the villages and smaller towns. To make the point, he took the example of Ning-te, remarking that the city "itself presents very little encouragement. The city congregation is composed solely of converts from the surrounding villages."
en 1984 Lu You Lu Yu David M. Gordon The Wild Old Man https://archive.org/details/wildoldmanpoemso0000luyo/ w:North Point Press 0-86547-150-9 83-063132 11608300 xiii https://archive.org/details/wildoldmanpoemso0000luyo/page/n18/ After the death of Ch'in Kuei in 1158, Lu received an official post in the Ning-te district of Fukien.
Translations
Ningde
Anagrams
en eginnt Tingen enting ginnet gnetin