Anlu

• An-lu (Wade–Giles)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑːnˈluː/

Anlu

1. A county-level city in Xiaogan, Hubei, China.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 2016, Hing Ming Hung, “Zhu Yuan Zhang Founds The Ming Dynasty”, in From the Mongols to the Ming Dynasty: How a Begging Monk Became Emperor of China, Zhu Yuan Zhang‎, New York: Algora Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 170:

     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.

   • 2020 February 12, “Xiaogan makeshift hospital under construction”, in State Council of the People's Republic of China‎, archived from the original on 27 June 2022:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Anlu.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Anlu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 141, column 1

• Alun, Lu'an, Luna, auln, luan, luna, ulan, ulna, unal