"Douliou" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1999, Michael J. Hatton, “Taiwan Folk Village”, in Community-Based Tourism in the Asia-Pacific, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 65, column 3:",
          "text": "The Village actively supports 13 historic crafts, including the making of cotton comforters, noodles, rice vermicelli, paper, incense, and the molding of clay figures. It also preserves and presents for public education 36 very old structures, including a Hakka residence from Beipu, a farmhouse from Tianwei, an ancient family dwelling from Lugang, an enclosed-courtyard house from Changhua, a scholar’s residence from Penghu, and a “dragon building” from Douliou, as well as more than 3,000 ancient artifacts.",
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          "ref": "2005, Birdwatching in Taiwan, Taipei: Wild Bird Society of Taipei, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 149:",
          "text": "Take the train to Douliou, and then catch the Taisi Bus that stops in Shihliou.",
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          "ref": "2008 June 30, Ralph Jennings, “Taiwan baseball chief ready to take rap if team flops”, in John O’Brien, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-10-08, Olympics News:",
          "text": "Players from Taiwan celebrate after defeating South Africa 4-0 in their International Baseball Federation's (IBAF) final Olympic qualifying tournament game in Douliou March 13, 2008.",
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          "ref": "2011, RSH, “They Don't Speak English Here”, in Watch Out for Falling Lizards, →ISBN, →LCCN, page https://www.google.com/books/edition/Watch_Out_for_Falling_Lizards/TjhZEAAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&pg=PT6:",
          "text": "Darb didn't live in Taichung. He lived in a town named Douliou, Taiwan. Douliou was three hours south of Taichung.[…]\nOne night after soon arriving in Douliou, Darb came home and said that he wanted to have a few drinks. What a surprise.",
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          "ref": "2016, Phil Knight, “1976”, in Shoe Dog, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 286:",
          "text": "Over the next week we visited and toured about two dozen factories. Most were bad. Dark, dirty, with workers going through the motions, heads bowed, vacant looks in their eyes. Just outside Taichung, however, in the small town of Douliou, we found a factory that showed promise. It was called Feng Tay, and it was managed by a young man named C. H. Wong.",
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          "ref": "2018 January 4, “Honey tangerines”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 2022-10-08, Photos of the Day:",
          "text": "Honey tangerines produced in Yunlin County are displayed at a promotional event held by the Douliou City Office on Thursday. A honey tangerine festival is set to take place in the city Jan. 26-28.",
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          "ref": "2018 February 19, Yi-wei Chen, William Yen, “Magnitude 4.4 quake strikes central Taiwan”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2018-02-19, Environment:",
          "text": "The temblor shook hardest in Ershui Township in Changhua County and Dadu District in Taichung, where it measured 3 in intensity, indicating that most people in those areas felt it.\nIt also registered an intensity of 2 in Nantou City in Nantou County, Douliou in Yunlin County, Changhua City in Changhua County and Hualien City in Hualien County, according to weather bureau data.",
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          "ref": "2022 January 24, Cheng-hui Chen, “Fulgent sales, profits step upward on shoe demand”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-23, Business, page 12:",
          "text": "Fulgent’s headquarters are in Yunlin County’s Douliou City (斗六), with seven production bases overseas — three in China, three in Vietnam and one in Cambodia.",
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          "text": "Players from Taiwan celebrate after defeating South Africa 4-0 in their International Baseball Federation's (IBAF) final Olympic qualifying tournament game in Douliou March 13, 2008.",
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          "text": "Darb didn't live in Taichung. He lived in a town named Douliou, Taiwan. Douliou was three hours south of Taichung.[…]\nOne night after soon arriving in Douliou, Darb came home and said that he wanted to have a few drinks. What a surprise.",
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          "text": "Over the next week we visited and toured about two dozen factories. Most were bad. Dark, dirty, with workers going through the motions, heads bowed, vacant looks in their eyes. Just outside Taichung, however, in the small town of Douliou, we found a factory that showed promise. It was called Feng Tay, and it was managed by a young man named C. H. Wong.",
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          "text": "Honey tangerines produced in Yunlin County are displayed at a promotional event held by the Douliou City Office on Thursday. A honey tangerine festival is set to take place in the city Jan. 26-28.",
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          "text": "The temblor shook hardest in Ershui Township in Changhua County and Dadu District in Taichung, where it measured 3 in intensity, indicating that most people in those areas felt it.\nIt also registered an intensity of 2 in Nantou City in Nantou County, Douliou in Yunlin County, Changhua City in Changhua County and Hualien City in Hualien County, according to weather bureau data.",
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          "text": "Fulgent’s headquarters are in Yunlin County’s Douliou City (斗六), with seven production bases overseas — three in China, three in Vietnam and one in Cambodia.",
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