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until the mid-20th century, the islands'
English name was
spelled Luchu,
Loochoo, Loo-choo, or Lewchew, all
pronounced /ˈluːtʃuː/.
These spellings were...
- Look up
Liuqiu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Liuqiu or
Lewchew is a
Chinese place-name
variously denoting:
Liuqiu (medieval), a
realm variously identified...
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Bettelheim (d. 1870), a
Hungarian Protestant missionary serving with the
Loochoo Naval Mission,
arrives in
Ryukyu Kingdom. He
establishes the
first foreign...
- The
Loochoo Naval Mission (1843–1861) was a
Church of
England mission society to
provide Christian outreach to
outlying Ryukyu Islands,
today part of...
- occupants.
Working as a lay
medical missionary under the au****es of the
Loochoo Naval Mission, when Bettelheim's ship, HMS Starling,
arrived at Naha, the...
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which are to come from Miaco, and
thought they mean to go for
Lequea [
Loochoo], to look for
Fidaia Samme [Hideyori]." "July 7th, 1616
Speeches given...
- ****ingh, p. 346., p. 346, at
Google Books; Satow, Ernest. (1882) "Notes on
Loochoo" in
Transactions of the
Asiatic Society of ****an, Vols. 1–2, p. 1., p....
- CMJ), he
accepted an
appointment as
medical missionary to Naha with the
Loochoo Naval Mission.
Leaving from
Portsmouth on 9
September 1845, the Bettelheims...
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University of Hawai'i Press. 1999. pp. 1–3. Glacken, Clarence. "The
Great Loochoo: A
Study of
Okinawan Village Life".
University of
California Press. 1955...
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militarizing the
Kurile Islands, the
Bonin Islands, Amami-Oshima, the
Loochoo Islands,
Formosa and the Pescadores.
Despite a
gradual shift toward domestic...
