Jehol
Americannoun
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a region and former province in northeastern China: incorporated into Manchukuo by the Japanese 1932–45. 74,297 sq. mi. (192,429 sq. km).
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former name of Chengde.
noun
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a former province of NE China, north of the Great Wall: divided among Hebei, Liaoning, and Inner Mongolia in 1956. Area: 192 380 sq km (74 278 sq miles)
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a region of NE China, in Hebei and Liaoning provinces: mountainous
Example Sentences
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Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida had seen his country through the Jehol invasion.
From Time Magazine Archive
He let the northern province of Jehol fall into Japanese hands in 1933.
From Time Magazine Archive
Foreign military attaches were frankly amazed when the middle Japanese spearhead plunged with seeming ease into Chaoyang, the second largest Jehol city, supposed to have been defended by large Chinese forces guarding an "impregnable pass."
From Time Magazine Archive
On no issue was T.V. more outspoken than Japanese aggression in Manchuria and Jehol.
From Time Magazine Archive
In addition to this the foreign soldiers burnt down the Palace at Yuen Ming Yuen, so we fled to Jehol.
From Two Years in the Forbidden City by Der Ling, Princess
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