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Kalgan

British  
/ ˈkɑːlˈɡɑːn /

noun

  1. a former name of Zhangjiakou

"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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Floods at Canton in the extreme South and at Kalgan in the extreme North caused much damage.

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And so, last year, had the Chinese Communists; Fu's crack cavalry had caught them unprepared in Kalgan, had driven them out and reopened 500 miles of railroad west of Peiping.

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After taking over the ancient crossroads city of Kalgan, some 215 miles inland from Chinwangtao, and making it the capital of a new border government, the Eighth turned its energies to Manchuria.

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Minister Johnson climbed aboard, "rode the rods" to Kalgan, kept the soldiers in high Chinese glee by translating some of his more successful U. S. anecdotes.

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It is the projected extension of the railway from Kalgan to Kiachta.

From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry

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