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Nanle

Nanle proper noun: a county of Puyang, Henan, China.

Proper noun

Nanle

  1. A county of Puyang, Henan, China.
    • In 1993, the district government’s unreasonable grain tax incited a collective tax refusal by the peasant inhabitants of Jing Degu village in Jing Degu district in Nanle county (Henan province).1997, Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., “Everyday Forms of Resistance”, in Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage, Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN...
    • In another case in Nanle County of Henan, the authorities arrested the leader of the Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee and several coworkers. This Christian leader in the officially sanctioned church had engaged in a series of weiquan activities.2016, Fenggang Yang, “The Growth and Dynamism of Chinese Christianity”, in Christianity and Freedom, volume II, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 181

Origin of Nanle

From Mandarin 南樂 /南乐 (Nánlè).

Questions about Nanle

What does Nanle mean?
Nanle means a county of Puyang, Henan, China.
What part of speech is Nanle?
Nanle is a proper noun.

Words near Nanle in the dictionary

  1. nanking
  2. Nanking cherry
  3. Nankingese
  4. nankins
  5. nanks
  6. Nanle
  7. Nanling
  8. Nanling Mountains
  9. nanlingite
  10. Nanming
  11. nanmu

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