Aigun
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English
[edit]Etymology
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Proper noun
[edit]Aigun
- A town in Heihe, Heilongjiang, China.
- 1905, Archibald Little, “The Dependencies: Part I. Manchuria”, in The Far East[1], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 158[2]:
- North: Heilungkiang, 140,000 square miles. Population, 2,000,000. Capital, Tsitsihar, or, in Chinese, Pukwei; chief mart, Aigun, on the Amur, forty miles below Blagoveschensk (destroyed by the Russians in 1900).
- 1915 August 24, Charles K. Moser, “Harbin”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports[3], number 52h, →OCLC, page 1:
- Foreign trade goes not to Aigun, but to the Chinese town of Taheiho, which is situated about 30 miles distant from Aigun and is directly opposite the Siberian city of Blagovestchensk, on the other side of the Amur River.