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Heungshan

Heungshan proper noun: former name of Zhongshan (a prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China; former county of Guangdong, China).

Proper noun

Heungshan

  1. (historical) Former name of Zhongshan (a prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China; former county of Guangdong, China).
    • In accordance with the urgent resolutions unamimously passed by this meeting, Sir John boldly departed from Elgin’s line of policy and issued (July 31, 1858) a proclamation emphatically threatening the Heungshan and Sanon Districts with the retributive vengeance of the British Government if...1895, E. J. Eitel, Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882, London: Luzac & Company, page 320
    • The Portuguese have always claimed for Macao an independence of Chinese jurisdiction which the Chinese government, until 1887, never admitted. Much has been said of a “Golden Chop” constituting the charter of the colony, which is said to have been granted by the Chinese emperor, and to have been...1910, Hosea Ballou Morse, The International Relations Of The Chineses Empire, Longmans, Green, and Co., pages 43–44

Examples of Heungshan in a sentence

  • Copies of this proclamation were successfully delivered at Heungshan by a party of British marines, but when H.M.S.1895, E. J. Eitel, Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882, London: Luzac & Company, page 320:
  • Rent, a full recognition of sovereignty, was paid to the Heungshan Hien, from the very beginning until Governor Amaral's coup d’état in 1849.1910, Hosea Ballou Morse, The International Relations Of The Chineses Empire, Longmans, Green, and Co., pages 43–44:
  • Some lichees are grown in the Heungshan, Shuntak, and Samshui districts, and while they are produced in abundance in the Yeung Kong and Shui Tung districts they are of inferior quality.1915 September 24, F. D. Cheshire, “The Famous Lichee of China”, in Commercial Reports: Daily Consular and Trade Reports, volume 3, number...
  • Heungshan (Xiangshan) District was renamed Chungshan (Zhongshan) District in 1925 in honor of Dr.2010, Nancy J. Rosenbloom, “The Boundaries of Convention in the Gilded Age, 1880-1900”, in Women in American History since 1880: A...

Forms of Heungshan

alternative formHeung Shan

Origin of Heungshan

Borrowed from Cantonese 香山 (hoeng1 saan1), the former name of Zhongshan.

Questions about Heungshan

What does Heungshan mean?
Heungshan means former name of Zhongshan (a prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China; former county of Guangdong, China).
How do you use Heungshan in a sentence?
Copies of this proclamation were successfully delivered at Heungshan by a party of British marines, but when H.M.S.
What part of speech is Heungshan?
Heungshan is a proper noun.

Words near Heungshan in the dictionary

  1. heulandites
  2. heulanditic
  3. Heumen
  4. Heun
  5. Heun's method
  6. Heungshan
  7. heuningbos
  8. Heuns
  9. Heupel
  10. Heupels
  11. heureka

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