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Partial calque of Mandarin 滕縣滕县 (Téng Xiàn)

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Teng County

  1. (historical) Synonym of Tengzhou
    • 1980, Hugh Thomas, transl., Comrade Editor: Letters to the People's Daily[1], Hongkong: Joint Publishing Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 195:
      To top it off, the central branch in Jining loudly endorsed the experience of Teng County by declaring, at the region’s meeting of county bank managers and agricultural credit co-operative directors, “learn from Teng County; continue to mine the potential; go all out in savings accounts. Don’t be put off by this kind or that kind of interference!”
    • 1995 September, Jianing (陈家宁) Chen, 杨阳 [Yang Yang], “The God of Boats and the God of Carts”, in 中国神话世界 [The World of Chinese Myths]‎[2], 1st edition, Beijing: Beijing Language and Culture University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159:
      After his death, Xi Zhong was buried twenty-five li (about twelve kilometres) to the south of Xuecheng in Shandong Province, where people could find his tomb. And where he tested his cart, sixty li (thirty kilometres) from Teng County in Shandong Province, it is said that for years after his death, people could still see the wheel tracks.

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