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Noun: Port Arthur
  1. A major port city in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula; now a part of Luda
    - Lushunkou District, Lushun
     
  2. A battle in the Chino-Japanese War (1894); Japanese captured the port and fortifications from the Chinese
    - Battle of Port Arthur

Type of: city, metropolis, pitched battle, port, urban center [US], urban centre [Brit, Cdn]

Part of: Cathay [archaic], China, Communist China, Luda, Luta, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China [informal]

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