Leaotung

Léaotung English Etymology en Proper noun en obsolete en Liaodong. en https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.117169/ 1655 Bellum Tartaricum The History of That Great and Renowned Monarchy of China F. Alvarez Semedo E. Tyler 266 https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.117169/page/n267/ The Tartars hearing of his death (before the China Armie had a new General aſſigned) raiſe the ſiege, ranſack all the Country round about, and after they had made excurſions to the next bordering Province of Xantung, richly laden with all manner of Spoiles, returne to their firſt reſidence in Leaotung. en 1669 1665 John Nievhoff w:John Ogilby An embassy from the East-India Company An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/ nl John Macock London 407084353 6 https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/page/n17/ All China was formerly divided by the Chineſe Emperour Xunus into 12 Provinces; afterwards the Emperour Yua, who took upon him the Government after the death of Xunus, about 260 years before the Incarnation of our Saviour, reduced all China into Nine Provinces, which only at that time comprehended the Northern Parts of China, and had for their Confines the River Kiang. But after that they had Conquered the Southern parts by degrees, and had ſomewhat civilized the Inhabitants, the whole Kingdom of China was divided into 15 Provinces : Amongſt theſe alſo they reckon the Province of Leaotung, which is ſituated on the Weſt of Peking, where the great Wall begins, and the Hanging Iſland of Corea; both which pay Tribute to the Emperour. en 1701 CORéE, or COREA The Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical and Poetical Dictionary; Being a Curious Miscellany of Sacred and Prophane History ... Collected from the Best Historians, Chronologers and Lexicographers ... But More Especially Out of Lewis Morery, D.D. His Eighth Edition Corrected and Enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc 1 https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-great-historical-ge_morri-louis_1701_1/ 1 CORéE, or COREA, a Peninſula of China, to the Eaſt of Leaotung, and Xantung, whence it's ſeparated by the Gulf of Cang. en 1885 w:Edward P. Vining Julius Klaproth J. Klaproth Researches regarding the Country of Fu-sang, mentioned in Chinese Books, and erroneously supposed to be a Part of America An Inglorious Columbus; or, Evidence that Hwui Shăn and a Party of Buddhist Monks from Afghanistan Discovered America in the Fifth Century, a. d. https://archive.org/details/ingloriouscolum00vini/ w:D. Appleton and Company 1385420 43 https://archive.org/details/ingloriouscolum00vini/page/43/ Next, the Chinese text says that they set forth from the district of Lo-lang, which is situated not in Leao-tung, but in Corea, and of which the capital is the present city of Pʽing-jang (in d’Auville’s map, Ping-yang), situated upon the northern bank of the Ta-tʽung-kiang, or Pʽai-shue, a river of the province of Pʽing-ngan, which, in great part, in the time of the dynasty of Han, formed the district of Lo-lang. on Descendants fr Léaotung 1 Translations Liaodong en Former political divisions