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Lingwu
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língwù lǐngwù Língwǔ
English
Etymology
From en cmn 靈武 Língwǔ.
Pronunciation
lĭng′wo͞o′Lingwu 1059 2
en Ling wu
Proper noun
en county-level city city/Yinchuan ar/Ningxia c/China.
en 27 January 1978 27 January 1978 Grain Production, Bank Savings Increase in Ningsia Daily Report: People's Republic of China https://archive.org/details/fbis-reports_prex-710fbis-chi-78-19/ I 19 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Peking NCNA 0892-0141 1113433 M 1 https://archive.org/details/fbis-reports_prex-710fbis-chi-78-19/page/n66/ Savings deposits of some of the commune peasants in Wuchung and Lingwu counties, where people of the Hui nationality live in compact communities, increased by more than 30 percent and 100 percent respectively last year. In four people's communes in Lingwu County where 92 percent of the population is of the Hui nationality, total grain output last year topped 1976 by 70 percent and considerable progress was made in the diverisfieddiversified economy.
en 1980 Atlas of Primitive Man in China https://archive.org/details/atlasofprimitive0000unse_A7/ Beijing w:Science Press 0-442-20013-7 122773228 16276975M 127 https://archive.org/details/atlasofprimitive0000unse_A7/page/127/ The stone implements unearthed along with Hetao Man are very small in size. In spite of some similarities, they are markedly different from those found at Shuidonggou in Lingwu County in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. Therefore, the stone implements of these two sites should not be classified together into a “Hetao Culture” (Ordos Culture).
en 1987 w:Robin Hanbury-Tenison Between the Desert and the Green A Ride Along the Great Wall https://archive.org/details/ridealonggreatwa0000hanb/ 0-7126-1727-2 635742784 150 https://archive.org/details/ridealonggreatwa0000hanb/page/150/ Our hardest day now lay ahead. The road made a big detour to the south via Lingwu, crossing the Yellow River by the only bridge for many miles before turning north again for Yinchuan, the capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
en 1991 w:Dru C. Gladney Muslim Chinese https://archive.org/details/muslimchineseeth00glad/ 0-674-59495-9 90-26582 470668752 119 https://archive.org/details/muslimchineseeth00glad/page/119/ Yongning county is only 12.9 percent Hui, a relatively small minority in contrast to neighboring Lingwu county in the southeast, which is 47 percent Hui, and southern Jingyuan county, which is 97 percent Hui (the highest concentration of Hui in one county in China, see Map 2).
en 21 MAR 2018 Wee Kek Koon What happened to China’s early Christians and why did the Nestorian doctrine die out? https://web.archive.org/web/20180324163933/https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/2138170/what-happened-chinas-early-christians-and-why 24 March 2018 w:South China Morning Post For the next two centuries, Nestorian Christianity, known as Jing Jiao (“Resplendent Religion”) in Chinese, spread within the empire, with churches in cities as far apart as Lingwu (in present-day Ningxia), Chengdu and Guangzhou.
en
Translations
county-level city
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 靈武
Mandarin: cmn 靈武 Língwǔ
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 1998 Lingwu 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 1746 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1746/ 1
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