"Yochow" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1861, Lieut.-Col. Sarel, “Notes on the River Yang-tse-Kiang from Hankow to Ping-shan”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume 30, number 3, Calcutta: C. B. Lewis, Baptist Mission Press, published 1862, page 224:",
          "text": "The river between Hankow and Yochow is straight for the first and last parts of its course; part in the middle makes a loop twenty-eight miles round, the neck being only about a mile across… On the way from the river to Yochow at the head of the lake, a great number of sheep and goats with a few points were seen grazing on a low grassy flat, covered in floods; these were the only sheep seen on the river for a distance of 1,800 miles.",
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          "ref": "1934, George Babock Cressey, China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 293:",
          "text": "Owing to the cheapness of travel on the Yangtze, the railway lines tend to be at right angles, rather than parallel, to the river. In the west there is the southern section of the Peiping-Hankow Railway and the line from Wuchang to Yochow and Changsha. The central portion of the region has one railway, that from Kiukiang to Nanchang, while in the east there are three lines.",
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          "ref": "1944, G. Nye Steiger, A History of the Far East, Ginn and Company, →OCLC, page 546:",
          "text": "In the spring of 1852, therefore, they moved northward from Kwangsi into Hunan. Changsha, the capital of Hunan, beat off the rebel attacks; but Yochow, at the junction of the Siang and Yangtze rivers, was taken, and here the insurgents found an arsenal which furnished them with an abundance of weapons. From Yochow the now fully armed forces swept irresistibly down the Yangtze valley until in March, 1853, they established themselves at Nanking, the ancient capital of the Ming dynasty.",
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          "ref": "1946, Kenneth Scott Latourette, A Short History of the Far East, New York: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, pages 601–602:",
          "text": "On October 21, 1938, four days before they took Hankow, they seized Canton. In November 1938, Yochow, above Hankow, fell to their arms, followed a number of months later, in June 1940, by Ichang, still farther up the Yangtze.",
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          "ref": "1966, James E. Sheridan, Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yü-hsiang, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 69:",
          "text": "At the time Feng Yü-hsiang arrived in Pukow, Feng Kuo-chang had seemed to be gaining the upper hand over Tuan and his clique. Northern troops had been chased from Szechwan and from all of Hunan except Yochow, near the northern border between Hunan and Hupeh. On November 14, 1917, the leaders of the Northern troops defeated in Hunan circulated telegrams asking that the war be stopped.",
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        "Synonym of Yueyang; Yuezhou."
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        "(dated) Synonym of Yueyang; Yuezhou."
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          "text": "The river between Hankow and Yochow is straight for the first and last parts of its course; part in the middle makes a loop twenty-eight miles round, the neck being only about a mile across… On the way from the river to Yochow at the head of the lake, a great number of sheep and goats with a few points were seen grazing on a low grassy flat, covered in floods; these were the only sheep seen on the river for a distance of 1,800 miles.",
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