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Jiangling
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jiànglǐng Jiānglíng
English
Jiangling County
Alternative forms
en Kiangling Postal
en Chiang-ling Chiangling Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 江陵.
Pronunciation
en /ˈd͡ʒɑŋˌlɪŋ/
jyäng′lĭng′Kiangling or Chiang-ling 941 3 It was called Kingchow zh 荊州 until 1912.
en Jiang ling
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Jingzhou p/Hubei c/China.
en 1978 Peng Hao The Sword of the Price of Yueh Found in a Tomb of Chu in Kiangling New Archaeological Finds in China (II): More Discoveries During the Cultural Revolution https://archive.org/details/newarchaeologica0001unse/ 1st Peking w:Foreign Languages Press 4071466 43, 47 https://archive.org/details/newarchaeologica0001unse/page/43/ CHINANCHENG,¹ five kilometres north of Kiangling County² town in Hupeh Province, was known as Ying³ during the Spring and Autumn (770-475 B.C.) and Warring States (475-221 B.C.) periods, when it was the capital of the State of Chu.⁴ ²zh 江陵 on
en NOVEMBER 9, 2007 China jails 3 for selling fake pig disease vaccine https://web.archive.org/web/20210517160142/https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSPEK16706 17 May 2021 https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSPEK16706 w:Reuters Latest Crisis The three were given jail sentences ranging from one and a half to 3 years for selling bogus vaccine that lead to the death of more than 500 pigs and losses of 328,250 yuan ($44,280) for a company in Jiangling county, in central Hubei province,reported, citing a court official.Police in Jiangling had also charged a local vaccine inspection official with "dereliction of duty" for his involvement in the case, the paper added.
Translations
county in central China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 江陵
Mandarin: cmn 江陵 Jiānglíng
Japanese: ja
See also
en Gangneung
References
Further reading
Jiangling, Chiang-ling, Chiangling, Kiangling
en 1998 Jiangling Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1446 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1446/ 2