Definition of "Tinpak"

Junks from Pakhoi, Hoihow and Tinpak, in the south-west, commenced in 1846 a prosperous trade with Hongkong.

1895, E. J. Eitel, Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882‎, London: Luzac & Company, page 242

After two days in Shekkwat, we went on to Kaushing, only an hour away. This was formerly the prefectural city of Tinpak, before Maoming came into existence. The old walls are still standing, but as it was over five hundred years ago that Tinpak was divided, nobody knows anything about the old town.

1923, Maryknoll Mission Letters China‎, volume 1, New York: Macmillan Company, page 195

In South China, the Chinese after recapturing Tinpak to disrupt the Japanese communications along the coastal highway between the Liuchow peninsula and Canton, have now advanced to a point 9 miles east of Tinpak.

1945 July 20, “Chinese Recapture Jap Base in Kwangsi”, in The Bombay Chronicle‎, volume XXXIII, number 171, Bombay, page 5

A Jardine Matheson schooner came in from the east coast with $15,000 in treasure, the proceeds of hardly more than forty chests, and there seemed nothing better to do than send her to join others on the west coast, for it was thought some opium might still be disposed of at Tinpak and other stations between Saint John Island (Shangch’uan) and Hainan.

1975, Peter Ward Fay, “Peking in Earnest”, in The Opium War 1840-1842‎, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, published 1997, page 140

1849 Boats of Medea captured and burned five pirate junks at Tinpak.

2005, A.B. Sainsbury, F.L. Phillips, The Royal Navy, Day by Day‎, 3rd edition, Sutton Publishing, page 380, column 2