Nganning

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Nganning

  1. Dated form of Anning.
    • 1875, The Book of Ser Marco Polo[1], London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 57:
      This River Nganning waters a valley called Kienchang, containing near its northern end a city known by the same name, but in our modern maps marked as Ningyuen-fu; this last being the name of a department of which it is the capital, and which embraces much more than the valley of Kienchang.
    • 1912, “The Monthly Record”, in The Geographical Journal[2], volume XXIX, London: Royal Geographical Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 73:
      M. Dessirier explored the important range lying between the valley of the Nganning on the west and that of the Puke, traversed by M. Bonin, on the east.[...]At the end of March Dr. Legendre and M. Noiret explored the porphyritic range which runs from north to south between the valleys of the Tung-ho and Yangtse separating the valley of the Nganning from the basin of Yuesi.
    • 1912 February 10, The National Review, China[3], volume 11, →OCLC, page 114:
      M. Dessirier explored the important range lying between the valley of the Nganning on the and survey of the less known regions of the world , as a good west and that of the Puke traversed by M. Bonin on the east-