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Kongmoon
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Etymology
From the en zh-postal -en 1915 March Index to the New Map of China (In English and Chinese). https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/ Second Shanghai Far Eastern Geographical Establishment 829435521 34 https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/page/34/ The romanisation adopted isthat used by the Chinese Post Office.Kongmoon zh 江門 Kwangtung zh 廣東 22.32N 113.5 E of en yue 江門.
Proper noun
en Jiangmen.
en https://archive.org/details/provinceschina00brucgoog/mode/2up 1910 The Provinces of China, Together with a History of the First Year of H.I.M. Hsuan Tung, and an Account of the Government of China "The National Review" Office Shanghai 1113323370 7216558M 111 https://archive.org/details/provinceschina00brucgoog/page/n158/mode Reaching Samshui the stream bifurcates, one branch moving northward past Fatshan and Canton, thence being known as the Chu Kiang or Pearl River, and the other still retaining the name of West River and sweeping past Kongmoon to the sea.
en October 28, 1925 Chan's Allies w:China Mail !19,635 https://archive.org/details/NPCM19251028/ 12488501 1 https://archive.org/details/NPCM19251028/ 3 Tang Pun-yan (the pro-Chan general now holding the southern peninsula of Kwangtung) is advancing by two routes to attack Kongmoon. Fighting has broken out at Yanping (in the Sze Yap districts).
en 1945 Mark Tennien Chungking Listening Post https://archive.org/details/chungkinglisteni0000tenn/ New York Creative Age Press, Inc. 412929 37 https://archive.org/details/chungkinglisteni0000tenn/page/37/ The Japanese Army had taken Kongmoon, South China, in 1939, but the American priests there went on with their mission tasks and in addition dispensed rice and wheat daily to the thousands of starving refugees.
en 1956 Theodore Shabad China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000shab/ New York w:Frederick A. Praeger 55-11530 633834569 166 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000shab/page/166/ With the exception of Shiukwan on the Canton-Hankow railroad, Kwangtung’s regional centers are situated along the coast, notably in the Canton delta. There, in addition to Canton, are the cities of Fatshan, Kongmoon and Shekki.
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