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Kienyang
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English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from en cmn - 建陽.
Proper noun
en @dated form of:Jianyang district/and/former county preflcity/Nanping p/Fujian c/China.
en 1931 E. F. E. Wigram The Fukien Diocese and Mission Weapons that Win: Being the C. M. S. Story of the Year, 1930-31 https://archive.org/details/MN41742ucmf_8/ London Church Missionary Society 37294370 106 https://archive.org/details/MN41742ucmf_8/page/n117/ Miss I. B. Ramsay writes from Kienyang that "all the churches in the county have suffered greatly from the depredations of the bandits and Communists. A few Christians have been killed, others carried away captive and held to ransom."
en August 30, 1933 August 29, 1933 U.S. NAVY TO AID CITIZENS IN CHINA; Consul Asks Protection When Chinese Communists Make Gains in Civil War. JAPAN ALSO SPEEDS SHIPS American Missionaries Trapped in Fukien Province Reported Fleeing to Foochow. https://www.nytimes.com/1933/08/30/archives/us-navy-to-aid-citizens-in-china-consul-asks-protection-when.html 7 Four other Americans are reported to have been at Yenping, two at Kienning and one at Kienyang. The local Chinese authorities, on the request of the American consul, have cooperated in the evacuation of the other Americans in the district who have reached Foochow, the State Department said.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from en cmn - 簡陽.
Proper noun
en @dated form of:Jianyang county-level city preflcity/Chengdu p/Sichuan c/China.