Houma

Houma

1. A city, the parish seat of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States. It was named after the Houma people.

From Mandarin 侯馬／侯马 (Hóumǎ).

• (from Wade–Giles) Hou-ma

Houma

1. A county-level city in Linfen, Shanxi, China.
   • [1927, Li, Chi, “Archaeological Survey of the Fêng River Valley, Southern Shansi, China”, in Explorations and Field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1926 (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections)‎, volume 78, number 7, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, OCLC 1051580882, page 129:

     Having gone to Chiang Chou from Chü-wo by the northern route through Hou-ma, we returned over a bypath through mountains in the south which has been gradually elevated from the Fêng River valley by loess deposit.]

   • 1946 February 28, “Briefing of Committee of Three and Commissioners, Thursday, February 28, 1946, 4 p.m.”, in Foreign Relations of the United States‎, volume IX, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1972, OCLC 660626119, page 457:

     “Team No. 14 arrived at Linfen on the 2nd of February. The fighting in that area was in the vicinity of Houma, but the situation is now stabilized and there lias been no fighting since the arrival of the team.

   • 1972, Hsia Nai, “Archaeological Work During the Cultural Revolution”, in New Archaeological Finds in China (中国新出土文物)‎, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, published 1973, OCLC 18330473, page 2:

     Between 1969 and 1970 continued excavation of sacrificial pits at the site of the State of Tsin¹⁰ at Houma, Shansi Province, yielded the bones of sacrificial oxen, horses and sheep, jade blades and slips, and other relics from the 5th century B.C.

   • 2020 June 15, Danny Mu, “Haier’s Adaptive Strategy Wins In The Face Of COVID-19 Challenges”, in Forrester Research‎, archived from the original on 25 May 2022:

     A key tenet of Haier’s adaptive strategy is its COSMOPlat industrial IoT platform. This platform supported the establishment of the first autonomous mask production line in Houma, Shanxi with the creation of medical material information sharing platform in 2 days. Its global supply chain provided medical materials for over 400 firms for production of masks, protective clothing, and goggles.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Houma.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Houma”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1314, column 3

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