Anshan
Americannoun
noun
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a city in NE China, in Liaoning province. Pop: 1 459 000 (2005 est)
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an ancient city and region in Persia, associated with Elam
Example Sentences
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Ms. Sun, who has no family ties to the party’s revolutionary founders, started as a worker at a factory that made watches in the northeastern city of Anshan.
From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2022
Parts of Zhengzhou, an iPhone manufacturing hub, and the steel city of Anshan were still in lockdown on Sunday.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2022
A few cities near Dalian, including Dandong, Anshan and Shenyang, have said that people arriving from Dalian had to be quarantined at centralised facilities for 14 days before they can move freely.
From Reuters • Nov. 15, 2021
Anshan and Gindalbie’s Karara mine is the first of at least eight magnetite iron ore projects planned for the state’s Mid West grain belt in the next decade.
From BusinessWeek • Feb. 2, 2011
Cyrus was a petty king of the shrunken Elamite province of Anshan, which had been conquered by the Persians.
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander
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