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I-lan
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Ilan I-lan ilan ilân
English
Etymology 1
From the en cmn-wadegiles -en 1998 Blunden Caroline Gazetteer Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 232, 237 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/237/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Yilan/I-lan/Wuwei (Taiwan) romanization of the en cmn 宜蘭// I²-lan².
Proper noun
1 1
en Yilan.
en https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofchri0000mich/ 1966 December Taiwan 17 4 Focus w:American Geographical Society Alice Taylor 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_focus-on-geography_1966-12_17_4/page/n1/ Although Taiwan has the advantages of abundant rains and a long growing season, which make it possible in much of the cultivated area to grow two and even three crops a year on the same plot, there are handicaps. Surface configuration and poor soils have limited the arable area to the western plains, the T'ai-tung Valley, and the I-lan Plain-or only some 24 per cent of the land surface in all.
en https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofchri0000mich/ 1968 A Systematic Study of Oncomelania hupensis chiui (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) 7 1 w:Malacologia George M. Davis 0076-2997 1696513 65 https://archive.org/details/biostor-107038/page/n48/ Moreover, the anatomical and biophysical studies described in this paper have not only indicated the snail first described as "Tricula" to be a subspecies of Oncomelania hupensis, but to be most closely related to O. h. formosana, and, in particular, to a population of that subspecies from I-lan county, also located in the northern tip of Taiwan.
en 1970 Leonard H. D. Gordon Taiwan : Studies in Chinese Local History https://archive.org/details/taiwanstudiesinc0000unse/ w:Columbia University Press 0-231-03376-1 78-108096 905626743 4761243M 49 https://archive.org/details/taiwanstudiesinc0000unse/page/49/ Elsewhere, on the east coast an auxiliary force composed of Ōsaka Fourth Division reserves staged landings in the I-lan district on June 21, and in only two days' time had peacefully entered the main towns of Lo-tung and I-lan in that area.
en 1972 w:Peng Ming-min A Taste of Freedom https://archive.org/details/tasteoffreedom00ming/ w:Holt, Rinehart and Winston 0-03-091388-8 79-182773 832168899 7272872M 206 https://archive.org/details/tasteoffreedom00ming/page/206/ I was told that the security agencies had determined that in the event of a public disturbance of any kind, three men would be destroyed at once. They were Henry Kao, the present mayor of Taipei, Kuo Yu-shin, an outspoken non-K.M.T. member of the Provincial Assembly elected by a solid constituency in I-lan, and me. The three of us were referred to in security documents by a coded sign, three concentric circles.
Translations
Yilan
Etymology 2
thumb|Map including zh 依蘭 I-LAN (SAN-HSING) zh 三姓 (Army Map Service AMS, 1955)
From the en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of the en cmn 依蘭// I¹-lan².
Proper noun
1 1
en Yilan.
Translations
Yilan
References
Anagrams
en ailn INLA LNAI Lain Lani Lian Lina Nila anil lain nail