Lan-chou

lanchou English thumb|Map including LAN-CHOU (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1975) Etymology From en cmn 蘭州 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Lan²-chou¹.Lanzhou, Wade-Giles romanization Lan-chou, in Encyclopædia Britannicaen Brian Hook 1982 Selected Glossary The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/ Cambridge University Press 0521230993 81-9927 781411242 476, 481 https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/page/481/ The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin,Lan-chou (Lanzhou) zh 蘭州 Pronunciation länʹjōʹ Proper noun 1 1 en Lanzhou. en https://archive.org/details/naturevolume14unkngoog/ December 3, 1891 The Land of the Lamas Nature (journal) Nature 45 1153 0028-0836 421716612 98 https://archive.org/details/naturevolume14unkngoog/page/n158/ He determined to enter Tibet from the north, and started from Peking on December 17. The choice of this route made it necessary for him to make in the first instance for Lan-chou, the capital of the province of Kan-su ; so he arranged with a cart firm to supply him with two carts, with two mules each, to take him there in thirty-four days.[...]From Lan-chou, Mr. Rockhill advanced to Hsi-ning, the residence of the Chinese Imperial Controller-general of the Koko-nor, an official known to the Tibetans and Mongols as the Amban. en 1914 Alexander Hosie On the Trail of the Opium Poppy https://archive.org/details/b31360099_0001/ 1 w:Small, Maynard & Company 3633929 88 https://archive.org/details/b31360099_0001/page/88/ Soon after leaving the village we crossed some rising ground, meeting on the summit a caravan of forty mules laden with drugs from Lan-chou, the capital of the province of Kansu. These drugs are sent down by cart to the department city of Ch'in Chou, eight stages from the capital, and there transferred to and thence brought down by pack animals. en https://archive.org/details/impossiblejourne0000lyon/ 2005 Impossible Journeys Mathew Lyons w:Cadogan Guides w:Globe Pequot Press 2006 978-1-86011-367-3 1064115789 103 https://archive.org/details/impossiblejourne0000lyon/page/103/ There is nothing implausible about this, but there will certainly have been cities along the way, most obviously Lan-chou on the Huang-ho River at the southern end of the Kansu corridor, which, assuming that Pegolotti came that way, he would have found impossible to miss. Translations Lanzhou References Further reading Anagrams en achlnou Calhoun