"Sianfu" meaning in English

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          "text": "Sianfu is a noble and great city in the province of Mangi, and hath twelve rich and great cities under her juriſdiction.",
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          "text": "As we rode slowly over the Lunghai Line toward Sianfu, across the brown sun-baked plains of Northern Honan, soon to be flooded when the Chinese breached the Yellow River dikes to stop the advancing Yellow Horde, we passed many troop trains en-route to the front.",
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