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I-wu
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iwu
English
thumb|1955 AMS map including Yiwu ("I-wu") in Zhejiang
Etymology
From the en cmn-wadegiles -en 1998 Blunden Caroline Gazetteer Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 232, 237 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/237/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Yiwu/I-wu (Tang "province") romanizations of various en cmn - en zh - names.
Proper noun
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en Yiwu.
en 1967 Jung-pang Lo Kang Youwei K'ang Yu-wei: A Biography and a Symposium https://archive.org/details/kangyuweibiograp0000unse/ w:University of Arizona Press 66-20911 462844653 53 https://archive.org/details/kangyuweibiograp0000unse/page/53/ The provincial censor, Chu I-hsin, a native of I-wu [in Chekiang], who was then lecturing at the Kuang-ya Academy, called on me and we debated on many questions.
en 1970 1968 w:Shiba Yoshinobu w:Mark Elvin Commerce and Society in Sung China https://archive.org/details/commercesocietyi00shib/ 1992 0-89264-902-X 1181343913 114 https://archive.org/details/commercesocietyi00shib/page/114/ In I-wu county in Wu-chou (Chin-hua) there are scattered storehouse proprietors and brokers who undertake the buying and selling (of silk). ... Previously the people in the hilly valleys of I-wu county made their living by weaving thin silk.
en 1995 Thomas G. Nimick CH'I CHI-KUANG AND I-WU COUNTY https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/014703795788763681 Ming Studies 1759-7595 643340922 1 The famous general Ch'i Chi-kuang led troops from Chekiang's I-wu County in the campaigns against Japanese pirates on the southeast coast between 1561 and 1567. https://web.archive.org/web/20230814063102/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/014703795788763681 14 August 2023
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en iuw WUI
en Counties and county-level cities of China Places in China Yiwu Counties and county-level cities of Jinhua Places in Jinhua Places in Zhejiang, China Former provinces of China Places in Hebei, China Former countries and country-like entities
en terms with historical senses