Paris of the East

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A major city that is considered as magnificent or culturally significant as Paris.

   “"You know, of course," noted another officer, "there are any number of Parises of the East, from Warsaw to Bucharest."”

2. özel isim Former nickname for Bucharest: the capital and largest city of Romania.
3. özel isim Former nickname for Casablanca: a major city in Morocco.
4. özel isim Former nickname for Lahore: a major city in modern Pakistan; in use during the time of the British Raj.
5. özel isim Former nickname for Phnom Penh: the capital and largest city of Cambodia.
6. özel isim Former nickname for Hanoi: a major city in Vietnam.
7. özel isim Former nickname for Shanghai: a major port city and direct-administered municipality of China.

   “1934 — Anon., All About Shanghai: A Standard Guidebook, The University Press, Shanghai. 1983 reed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, →ISBN. p. 73; What odds whether Shanghai is the Paris of the East or Paris the Shanghai of the Occident ?”