Long County
English
editEtymology 1
editPartial calque of Mandarin 隴縣/陇县 (Lǒng Xiàn).
Proper noun
edit- A county of Baoji, Shaanxi, China.
- [1956, Tieh-tseng Li, “Notes”, in The Historical Status of Tibet[1], New York: King's Crown Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 225:
- Lungchou had its district government at the present-day Lung-hsien in Shensi Province. The Lungchou barrier here indicated must be somewhere north of Ch’ing-shui in the present Kansu Province.]
- 2002, Emma C. Bunker, Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugene V. Thaw and Other Notable New York Collections[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24:
- Each animal is cast with a hollow, open body that fits over the yoke of a cart (cat. nos. 31, 3c, 37), as do similarly designed animal figures excavated from a Qin tomb at Bianjiazhuang, Long county, southwestern Shaanxi Province.
- 2021, Yan Sun, Many Worlds Under One Heaven: Material Culture, Identity, and Power in the Northern Frontiers of the Western Zhou, 1045–771 BCE[4], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page [5]:
- The shift of Ze from Long County down to central Baoji in the south presents an example of a polity's relocation from the periphery to the center of this frontier.
Synonyms
editTranslations
editEtymology 2
editNamed after Crawford Long.
Proper noun
edit- One of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Ludowici.
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