Dengzhou

See also: Dēngzhōu and Dèngzhōu

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Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 鄧州邓州 (Dèngzhōu).

Proper noun

Dengzhou

  1. A county-level city in Nanyang, Henan, China.
    • 2007, Civil-Military Relations in Today's China: Swimming in a New Sea, M.E.Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 120:
      According to Ying Mingquan (director of the People’s Armed Forces Department of Dengzhou Municipality, Henan Province, and standing member of the Dengzhou Municipal Party Committee), a military standing member should play three roles: the role of publicist (xuanchuan yuan), the role of a military leader with local responsibilities (zhandou yuan), and the role of liaison (lianluo yuan).
    • 2014 May 2, Mimi Lau, “Dengzhou villager creates fake but effective 'government office' to fight illegal land grabs”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 May 2014, China:
      Zhang Haixin, 46, a farmer in Dengzhou, was arrested last November on charges of forging government documents, after years of quietly working to protect the land of villagers who felt they had nowhere else to turn. []
      She helped postpone a land grab in her village by leading a group of petitioners to the cities of Dengzhou, Henan’s provincial capital Zhengzhou and even Beijing, starting in 2009.
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Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 登州 (Dēngzhōu).

Proper noun

Dengzhou

  1. (obsolete) The city of Penglai in Shandong in China.
  • Denglai
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