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Anlu

Syllables: An·lu/ˌɑːnˈluː/

Anlu proper noun: a county-level city of Xiaogan, Hubei, China.

Proper noun

Anlu

  1. A county-level city of Xiaogan, Hubei, China.
    • In Hupeh District it is at work in fifteen counties: […] Anlu, […] So far as the foreign staff is concerned there were no men added in 1915 and only three ladies: Miss Weaver for evangelistic work in Wuchang, Miss Stephenson for the Anlu Hospital, and Miss McCord for evangelistic work at Anlu.1916, George A. Clayton, “Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (1852)”, in China Mission Year Book 1916, volume 7th, Shanghai: Christian Literature Society for China, →OCLC, page 119
    • Chu conferred with Hsü Ta and Ch’ang Yü-ch’un at Nanking on 23 April. The only ex-Han territories still free from Ming control were the cities of the Han River valley, of which Hsiangyang and Anlu were the most important.1982, Edward L. Dreyer, “The Rise of the Ming Empire, 1352–1368”, in Early Ming China: A Political History, 1355–1435, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 55

Examples of Anlu in a sentence

  • On 16 February Emperor Zhu Yuan Zhang ordered General Deng Yu to take the troops in Xiangyang (now Xiangyang, Hubei Province) and Anlu (now Anlu, Hubei Province) northward to conquer Henan Province.2016, Hung Hing Ming, “Zhu Yuan Zhang Founds The Ming Dynasty”, in From the Mongols to the Ming Dynasty: How a Begging Monk Became Emperor...
  • Workers work at the construction site of a makeshift hospital in Anlu city, which is under the administration of Xiaogan city, in Central China's Hubei province, Feb 11, 2020.2020 February 12, “Xiaogan makeshift hospital under construction”, in State Council of the People's Republic of China, archived from the...

Forms of Anlu

alternative formAn-lu

Origin of Anlu

From the Postal Map romanization of the Mandarin 安陸 /安陆 (Ānlù).

Questions about Anlu

What does Anlu mean?
Anlu means a county-level city of Xiaogan, Hubei, China.
How do you use Anlu in a sentence?
On 16 February Emperor Zhu Yuan Zhang ordered General Deng Yu to take the troops in Xiangyang (now Xiangyang, Hubei Province) and Anlu (now Anlu, Hubei Province) northward to conquer Henan Province.
What part of speech is Anlu?
Anlu is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Anlu?
Anlu is pronounced /ˌɑːnˈluː/.

Words near Anlu in the dictionary

  1. Anle
  2. Anley
  3. Anlo
  4. Anlong
  5. anlotinib
  6. Anlu
  7. anma
  8. anmitsu
  9. Anmol
  10. Anmoore
  11. Anmore

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