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Historical Names of Beijing Year City Name Dynasty Notes c. 1045 BC City of Ji 薊城 Zhou, Warring States [Note 1] 221 BC Qin [Note 2] 106 BC - 318 AD City of Ji Youzhou 幽州 Han, Wei, Western Jin (晉) [Note 3] 319 Later Zhao [Note 4] 350 Eastern Jin (晉) [Note 5] 352–57 Former Yan [Note 6] 370 Former Qin [Note 7] 385 Later Yan [Note 8 ...
The city's name was restored to Beijing, which again served as the national capital. [190] At the time, the city limits contained 707 km 2 (273 sq mi) of territory [ 191 ] and had just over 2.03 million residents. [ 192 ]
Over the past 3,000 years, the city of Beijing has had numerous other names. The name Beijing, which means "Northern Capital" (from the Chinese characters 北 běi for north and 京 jīng for capital), was applied to the city in 1403 during the Ming dynasty to distinguish the city from Nanjing (the "Southern Capital"). [37]
Khanbaliq remained the standard name for Beijing in Persian and the Turkic languages of Central Asia and the Middle East for quite a long time. It was, for instance, the name used in both the Persian and Turkic versions of Ghiyāth al-dīn Naqqāsh's account of the 1419–22 mission of Shah Rukh's envoys to the Ming capital. The account ...
Beijing (also romanized Peking), literally meaning "Northern Capital", previously also known as Beiping, was the capital of various dynasties and regional regimes, including: The state of Yan (11th century BC – 222 BC) in the Zhou dynasty, when it was called Ji (蓟; 薊; Jì).
Name Historical region Present location Continuously inhabited since Notes Cholula: Old Cholula Mexico: c. 1000 [24] – c. 500 BC [25] [need quotation to verify] Pre-Columbian Cholula grew from a small village to a regional center during the 7th century. The city was the site of the Massacre of Cholula during the military campaign of Hernán ...
The name New China has been frequently applied to China by the Chinese Communist Party as a positive political and social term contrasting pre-1949 China (the establishment of the PRC) and the new name of the socialist state, Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó (in the older postal romanization, Chunghwa Jenmin Konghokuo), or the "People's ...
Peach — from Persia, old name for Iran; Peking Duck, a Chinese dish made of duck — Peking, old name for Beijing, China; Pilsner lager — Plzeň, Czech Republic; Pomfret Cakes — from Pontefract, Yorkshire, England; Salisbury steak — Salisbury, England; Sardine, types of small fish — Sardinia, island in the Mediterranean near Italy