Long County

English

Etymology 1

Partial calque of Mandarin 隴縣陇县 (Lǒng Xiàn).

Proper noun

Long County

  1. A county of Baoji prefecture, Shaanxi, China.
    • 1997, Stephen R. Bokenkamp, Early Daoist Scriptures, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 346:
      “Long” is an ancient name for the area around what is now Long County in Shaanxi Province. The land south of Long is the Sichuan Basin.
    • 2002, Bunker, Emma C., Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugene V. Thaw and Other Notable New York Collections, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24:
      Each animal is cast with a hollow, open body that fits over the yoke of a cart (cat. nos. 31, 3c, 37), as do similarly designed animal figures excavated from a Qin tomb at Bianjiazhuang, Long county, southwestern Shaanxi Province.
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Etymology 2

Named after Crawford Long.

Proper noun

Long County

  1. A county of Georgia, United States. County seat: Ludowici.
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