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Antung

American  
[ahn-doong, an-toong] / ˈɑnˈdʊŋ, ænˈtʊŋ /

noun

Wade-Giles.
  1. former name of Dandong.

  2. a former province of China, in Manchuria.


Antung British  
/ ˈænˈtʊŋ /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Andong

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Strategically, the fall of Antung was a greater blow to the Communists than Kalgan, where they had lost land communications between Yenan and their Manchurian headquarters, Harbin.

From Time Magazine Archive

His armies had given him the city of Antung.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even so, every once in a while, a special flight of red-nosed MIGs scrambles up from Antung across the Yalu.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week eight Sabres from a South Korean base were jumped by 15 or 16 MIGs over open water some 40 or 50 miles southwest of Antung.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Antung and New Wiju the Yalu is a very broad slow stream resembling an arm of the sea more than a river, reminding one of the St. Johns at Jacksonville, Florida.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)

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