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Longzhou
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lóngzhōu Lóngzhōu
English
+ County
Longzhou County
Alternative forms
en Lungchow dated
en Lung-chou Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization for en cmn 龍州.
Pronunciation
lo͝ong′jō′
en Long zhou
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Chongzuo province/Guangxi c/China.
en 1982 Roy M. Stanley II The Land War in China Prelude to Pearl Harbor https://archive.org/details/preludetopearlha0000stan/ New York w:Charles Scribner's Sons 0-684-17666-1 82-10325 965558977 124 https://archive.org/details/preludetopearlha0000stan/page/124/ 1 Building up strength, the Japanese went on the offensive again on 12 March 1940. This time they attacked west toward Lungchou near the French Indochina border to threaten a flank attack on Chinese positions. Lungchou fell to Japanese troops on 2 July 1940, but a Chinese counterattack drove the Japanese back. Lungchou was in Chinese hands again on 28 October, and Nanning, on the 29th. on
Translations
county in Guangxi, China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 龍州 lung4 zau1
Mandarin: cmn 龍州 Lóngzhōu
Further reading
en 1998 Longzhou 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 1777 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1777/ 2