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Seisen
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seisen
English
Etymology
From en ja -en 1952 Chongchon River Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 404 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/404/ 2 Jap. [Japanese] Seisen-ko 清川 せいせん.
Proper noun
en historical in reference to Japanese Korea en Chongchon: the Japanese-derived name
en 1921 Asia World Atlas of Commercial Geology https://archive.org/details/ldpd_10826223_002/ II Washington, D. C. w:United States Geological Survey 10440932 30 https://archive.org/details/ldpd_10826223_002/page/n29/ 3 Chosen (Korea) is mountainous and has abundant rainfall and great power resources. An American gold-mining company has a plant of 800 horsepower on a branch of Seisen River and has recently installed a plant of 1,600 horsepower on Kuron River, in northern Chosen.
en August 11, 1945 U. S. War Roundup Army Navy Journal LXXXII 51, Whole No. 3283 https://archive.org/details/sim_armed-forces-journal_1945-08-11_82_50/ Washington, D. C. 35654111 1505 https://archive.org/details/sim_armed-forces-journal_1945-08-11_82_50/page/n10/ 4 Privateers of Fleet Air Wing One on 31 July blew up a span of a large railway bridge near the mouth of the Seisen River in Northwest Korea, damaged another railway bridge and two trains and strafed a cannery, grading machinery at an airfield, and small craft along the coast in this area.
en 1962 Robert H. Ivy Westward to the Far East A Link with the Past https://archive.org/details/linkwithpast0000ivyr/ Baltimore The Williams & Wilkins Company 62-19979 4647428 17–18 https://archive.org/details/linkwithpast0000ivyr/page/18/ At Chinnampo, the mining company’s steam launch, with an old American salt named Captain Barstow, was waiting to take us 75 miles farther north to Anju, the old town on the Seisen River, mentioned many times in the newspapers during the late war.
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