Quang-tong

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Proper noun

Quang-tong

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of Guangdong
   • 1738, J. B. Du Halde, “PROVINCE IV. FO-KYEN.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet‎, volume I, London, →OCLC, page 84:

     Fo-kyen is bounded by Che-kyang on the North, Kyang-ſi on the Weſt, Quang-tong on the South, and on the Eaſt by the Sea of China.

   • 1780, “The Hiſtory of Jenghîz Khan's Succeſſors in Tartary and China”, in The Modern Part of an Univerſal History from the Earlieſt Accounts to the Preſent Time‎, volume IV, page 245:

     In November Ta-chû took the city of Quang-chew-fû ( Q ), in Quang-tong ; and, in December, the ſhip in which the emperor Twon-tſong had embarked, was in danger, near the iſles of Ma-kau, of being caſt away in a ſquall of wind.

   • 1798, An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, to the Court of the Emperor of China, in the Years 1794 and 1795‎, pages 12–13:

     It was on the 24th that the Tſong-tou returned from a journey which he had made to the province of Quang-ſi, which, like that of Quang-tong, was ſubject to his adminiſtration; but the Fou-yuen being obliged to ſet off the ſame day, and to go and examine the damages occaſioned by an inundation, at the diſtance of two or three days journey, his unforeſeen abſence determined the Tſong-tou to ſend, on the following day, two principal Mandarins to wait upon the Ambaſſador, and to tell him, that the was prevented by that circumſtance from giving him an audience.

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