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A 1584 map of China by Abraham Ortelius (based on a manuscript map by Luiz Jorge de Barbuda (Ludovicus Georgius), with Beijing marked as C[ivitas] Paquin (to the right which is north on the map) "Beijing" is from pinyin Běijīng, which is romanized from 北京, the Chinese name for this city. The pinyin system of transliteration was approved ...
Site Chinese name Location Designation Image Red Building of Peking University: 北京大学红楼: Beijing : 1-8 : Lugou Bridge: 卢沟桥: Beijing : 1-24 ...
Historical Names of Beijing; Year Name Dynasty Notes c. 11th century BC City of Ji 蓟城 State of Ji (Zhou dynasty) [Note 1] c. 7th century BC State of Yan (Zhou dynasty, Warring States) 221 BC Qin [Note 2] 206 BC State of Yan [Note 3] 202 BC Han: 106 BC - 318 AD City of Ji Youzhou 幽州 Han, Wei, Western Jin (晋) [Note 4] 319 Later Zhao ...
A map of Beijing from 1914. It was created by the German East-Asian Expeditionary Corps. Beijing, the political, cultural, military, and commercial centre of the empire, was the capital city of the last three dynasties of China; it was the last imperial capital built in China's history.
Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436) Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) Mercator 1569 ...
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Beijing 北京: 30 October 1644 [9] – 12 February 1912 [10] Republic of China: Nanjing 南京: 1 January 1912 – 2 April 1912: Provisional Government: Beijing 北京: 2 April 1912 – 30 May 1928: Beiyang government [10] Fengtian 奉天: 30 May 1928 – 29 December 1928: Beiyang government: Guangzhou 廣州: 1 July 1925 – 21 February 1927 ...
The map shows 500 settlements and a dozen rivers in China, and includes large parts of Korea and Vietnam. On the reverse side of Huayi tu is the gridded Yu Ji Tu (Map of the Tracks of Yu the Great). [7] This map is the earliest surviving example of lattice cartographic grid found in Chinese map, a system first introduced in China a millennium ...