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CHINCHEW, or CHINCHU

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 232 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHINCHEW, or CHINCHU , the name usually given in See also:English charts to an See also:ancient and famous See also:port of See also:China in the See also:province of Fu-kien, of which the See also:Chinese name is Ch'uanchow fu or Ts'uanchow fu. It stands in 24° 571 N., 118° 35' E. The walls have a See also:circuit of 7 or 8 m., but embrace much vacant ground. The See also:chief exports are See also:tea and See also:sugar, See also:tobacco, china-See also:ware, nankeens, &c. There are remains of a See also:fine See also:mosque, founded by the Arab traders who resorted thither. The English Presbyterian See also:Mission has had a See also:chapel in the See also:city since about 1862. Beyond the See also:northern See also:branch of the See also:Min (several See also:miles from the city) there is a suburb called Loyang, approached by the most celebrated See also:bridge in China. Ch'uanchaw, owing to the obstruction of its See also:harbour by See also:sand See also:banks, has been supplanted as a port by See also:Amoy, and its See also:trade is carried on through the port of Nganhai. It is still, however, a large and populous city. It was in the See also:middle ages the See also:great port of Western trade with China, and was known to the See also:Arabs and to Europeans asZaitun orZayton, the name under which it appears in See also:Abulfeda's See also:geography and in the Mongol See also:history of Rashiddudin, as well as in See also:Ibn Batuta,Marco See also:Polo and other See also:medieval travellers. Some See also:argument has been alleged against the identity of Zayton with Ch'uanchow, and in favour of its being rather Changchow (a great city 6o m. W.S.W. of Ch'uanchow), or a port on the See also:river of Changchow near Amoy.

" Port of Zayton may have embraced the great See also:

basin called Amoy Harbour, the chief See also:part of which lies within the Fu or See also:department of Ch'iianchow; but there is hardly See also:room for doubt that the Zayton of Marco Polo and Abulfeda was the Ch'uanchow of the Chinese. Ibn Batuta in-forms us that a See also:rich See also:silk texture made here was called Zaituniya; and there can be little doubt that this is the real origin of the word " Satin," Zettani in medieval See also:Italian, Aceytuni in See also:Spanish.

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