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Mu-tan-chiang
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English
thumb|Map including MU-TAN-CHIANG (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1975)
Etymology
From en cmn 牡丹江 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Mu³-tan¹-chiang¹.Mudanjiang, Wade-Giles romanization Mu-tan-chiang, in Encyclopædia Britannicaen 1972 Shabad Theodore Index China's Changing Map https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ New York Frederick A. Praeger 71-178868 482667885 345, 358 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/358/ Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles:(1) the Post Office system,(2) the Wade-Giles system,shown after the main entry(3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parenthesesMutankiang (Mu-tan-chiang, Mudanjiang)
Proper noun
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en Mudanjiang.
en 1888 w:H. E. M. James The Long White Mountain or A Journey in Manchuria https://archive.org/details/longwhitemountai00jame/ Longman Longmans, Green, and Co. 51356830 5 https://archive.org/details/longwhitemountai00jame/page/5/ The principal rivers are the Yalu or Ai-chiang, the Tumen or Kaoli-chiang, the Sungari or Sung-hua-chiang, the Nonni, and the Hurka or Mu-tan-chiang.
en https://archive.org/details/sovietfareastina00okla/ 1965 The Soviet Far East in Antiquity: An Archaeological and Historical Study of the Maritime Region of the U.S.S.R. w:Alexey Okladnikov w:University of Toronto Press 640541367 5975762M 183 https://archive.org/details/sovietfareastina00okla/page/183/ The balanced planning of the ancient city on the Mu-tan-chiang corresponds on the whole to the layout of the capital of the T'ang Dynasty, Ch'ang-an. The same street plans are found in the ancient capitals of Japan, Nara and Kyoto, built on the Chinese model.
en 1978 Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia https://archive.org/details/illustratedworld20baue/ H. S. Stuttman Inc. 20 0-87475-520-4 317252552 2701 https://archive.org/details/illustratedworld20baue/page/2701/ The key to the front was the town of Mu-tan-chiang, where the Japanese 5th Army (Lieutenant-General N. Shimizu) had concentrated.
en 2012 A. A. Evans; David Gibbons The Illustrated Timeline of World War II https://archive.org/details/illustratedtimel0000evan/ New York w:Rosen Publishing 978-1-4488-4795-2 2011007015 706677503 247 https://archive.org/details/illustratedtimel0000evan/page/247/ Aug 11-16, 1945 Russians take Mu-tan-chiang, key position in the east, after a see-saw battle
Translations
Mudanjiang
References
Further reading
en 1975 Mu-tan-chiang or Mutankiang William H. Harris; Judith S. Levey The New Columbia Encyclopedia https://archive.org/details/newcolumbiaencyc00harr/ Fourth Columbia University Press 0-231-03572-1 74-26686 1103123 1868 https://archive.org/details/newcolumbiaencyc00harr/page/1868/ 1