Chemulpo

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • enPR: chāʹmo͞olʹpôʹ[1]

Proper noun

Chemulpo

  1. Obsolete form of Incheon: a major city in South Korea.
    • 2015, Alistair Horne, “Port Arthur”, in Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century‎[2], Weidenfeld & Nicholson, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 15:
      Meanwhile another naval force escorting transports that carried 3,000 army troops was directed towards the Korean port of Chemulpo (later called Inchon).

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chemulpo or Inchon”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 382, column 1
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