"Tan-chou" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 儋州 (Dānzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Tan¹-chou¹.",
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          "ref": "1909, G. E. Gerini, Researches on Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Asia (Further India and Indo-Malay Archipelago) (Asiatic Society Monographs), number 1, London: Royal Geographical Society, →OCLC, page 250:",
          "text": "Tan-êrh, now Tan-chou (West Hainan), may well represent the Sandar, or Zandar, or Sender of the Arabs;[…]",
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          "ref": "1965, Burton Watson, transl., Su Tung-p'o: Selections from a Sung Dynasty Poet, University of Columbia Press, →OCLC, page 130:",
          "text": "The year before, the poet had been ordered to leave Hui-chou, where he had just settled down in his new house, and proceed to Tan-chou on the west side of Hainan Island in the South China Sea.",
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          "ref": "1994, Beata Grant, Mount Lu Revisited, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 9:",
          "text": "He left his remaining family in Hui-chou and proceeded to Tan-chou in Hai-nan accompanied only by his son Su Kuo.",
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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 儋州 (Dānzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Tan¹-chou¹.",
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          "ref": "1909, G. E. Gerini, Researches on Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Asia (Further India and Indo-Malay Archipelago) (Asiatic Society Monographs), number 1, London: Royal Geographical Society, →OCLC, page 250:",
          "text": "Tan-êrh, now Tan-chou (West Hainan), may well represent the Sandar, or Zandar, or Sender of the Arabs;[…]",
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          "ref": "1965, Burton Watson, transl., Su Tung-p'o: Selections from a Sung Dynasty Poet, University of Columbia Press, →OCLC, page 130:",
          "text": "The year before, the poet had been ordered to leave Hui-chou, where he had just settled down in his new house, and proceed to Tan-chou on the west side of Hainan Island in the South China Sea.",
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