Pingjang
See also: P'ing-jang
English
Proper noun
Pingjang
- (uncommon) Alternative form of Pingrang (Pyongyang).
- [1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China[1], London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 293:
- The whole Iſland is divided into eight Provinces or Counties : The middlemoſt, and accounted the firſt, bears the name of Kinki, wherein is ſituated the chief City of Pingiang, the Court of the Kings.]
- 1670, Arnoldus Montanus, translated by John Ogilby, Atlas Japannensis: Being Remarkable Addresses by Way of Embassy ... from the East-India Company ... to the Emperor of Japan[2], page 184:
- The four Northern Territories bordering next to Tartary, he had already miſerably ruin'd, when the King of Corea rais'd an Army to oppoſe the Tartars (who then design'd to Beſiege the Metropolis Pingjang) chuſing a convenient place for Ambuſcade , to ſurpriſe them in their March , and , as deſign'd , ſuddenly ſallied out upon them, ſuſpecting there no Oppoſition; […]
- 1671, Arnoldus Montanus, translated by John Ogilby, “A Memorable Embassy to the Emperor of Japan”, in Remarkable Addresses by Way of Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan. […], London: […] [T]he Author, […], page 131:
- WIthin stands the Idol Toranga, who had formerly been a great Hunter in Corca, and commonly dwelt in the Metropolis Pingjang; some Centuries before the Chinesy King Hiaovus, subdu'd and brought under his subjection half the Island Corea, which had never before tasted the cruelty of the Tartars, nor heard of the Spoils of Sandaracha, with which the Japanners and Chineses furnish their Houses: […]
- 1701, “CORéE, or COREA”, in The Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical and Poetical Dictionary; Being a Curious Miscellany of Sacred and Prophane History ... Collected from the Best Historians, Chronologers and Lexicographers ... But More Especially Out of Lewis Morery, D.D. His Eighth Edition Corrected and Enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc, volume 1, page [3]:
- All the Peninſula is divided into eight Provinces ; that which lies in the middle is called Kinki, where the famous Town Pingjang, the King's ordinary Reſidence is; beſides which, there are ſeveral Towns and Cities very well peopled, whoſe Inhabitants have the ſame Cuſtoms and Religion the Chineſe have, for they keep their dead Bodies in fine Coffins for three Years together, during which time they render it as much reſpect and civility ,” as if he that it 64, to were ſtill living, and at the end of the three years they bury them.