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Swatow ware or Zhangzhou ware is a loose grouping of mainly late Ming dynasty Chinese export porcelain wares initially intended for the Southeast Asian market. The traditional name in the West arose because Swatow, or present-day Shantou , was the South Chinese port in Guangdong province from which the wares were thought to have been shipped.
Eeklo (Dutch pronunciation: ⓘ) is a Belgian municipality in the Flemish province of East Flanders.The municipality comprises only the city of Eeklo proper. The name Eeklo comes from the contraction of eke and lo, two Old German words meaning 'oak' and 'sparse woods' (compare English Oakley).
A Guangdong warlord force of 15,000 troops allied with the emergent Right-Kuomintang under Chiang Kai-shek, well-entrenched and supplied blocking the march of the Nanchang mutineers, led by Communist International (Comintern) advisors and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members, toward the resupply of Shantou by a Soviet ship with the ultimate aim of seizing Guangzhou for the emergent Left ...
Shantou, alternately romanized as Swatow [3] [4] and sometimes known as Santow, [5] is a prefecture-level city on the eastern coast of Guangdong, China, with a total population of 5,502,031 as of the 2020 census (5,391,028 in 2010) and an administrative area of 2,248.39 square kilometres (868.11 sq mi).
Known in the United States as the "Swatow" [1] class gunboat, it was based on the Soviet P-6 class torpedo boat. The boat is designated as Type 55A (55 Jia Xing, 55甲型). Instead of being wooden hulled, and having torpedoes as the main armament, the Shantou class is steel-hulled, with guns as the main armament.
The following units and commanders fought in the Swatow Operation, June 21–27, 1939, of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Japan.
It then intensified more and made landfall on the Chinese coast near the city of Shantou (formerly romanized as Swatow) late on August 2 or early on August 3. [1] It quickly dissipated inland later. The minimum known central pressure of this typhoon is 27.53 inches of mercury (932 mb). [ 3 ]
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