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Ning-hsia
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Ninghsia
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Etymology
From en cmn 寧夏//, 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, 235 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/235/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Ningxia/Ning-hsia romanization: Ning²-hsia⁴.
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en Ningxia.
en 1990 w:Arthur Waldron The second debate over the Ordos The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth https://archive.org/details/greatwallofchina00wald/mode w:Cambridge University Press 0-521-36518-X 88-32689 243442537 125 https://archive.org/details/greatwallofchina00wald/page/125/ Bounded to the north and west by mountains and river, to the east by river alone, and to the south by high bluffs that mark the beginning of the loess country, it is a compact and easily defended territory hospitable only to nomads. Today these lands are divided between the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region and the Ning-hsia Hui Autonomous Region. Under the Republic the Ho-t’ao and Pao-t’ou plains were included in Sui-yuan province, and the Ning-hsia area in Ning-hsia province.
en 2014 Sherry Thomas Sherry Thomas w:My Beautiful Enemy https://archive.org/details/mybeautifulenemy0000thom_h8j4/ Romance w:Headline Publishing Group 978-1-4722-1454-6 892097500 271 https://archive.org/details/mybeautifulenemy0000thom_h8j4/page/271/ As they undressed and lay down, she asked about his leg, which had hurt for two days while he was crossing the Indian Ocean but not since. He asked about the treasure; she recounted the trip to Ning-hsia Province.
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