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Nanjing [b] is the capital of Jiangsu, a province in East China.The city, which is located in the southwestern corner of the province, has 11 districts, an administrative area of 6,600 km 2 (2,500 sq mi), and as of 2021 a population of 9,423,400. [6]
1952 - Nanjing College of Aviation Industry [2] and Wutaishan Sports Center founded. 1953 - Nanjing University of Science and Technology founded. [2] 1957 - Population: 1,419,000. [10] 1958 - Taiping Kingdom History Museum active. 1968 Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge constructed. [11] Nanjing Railway Station opens. 1988 December: Nanjing anti ...
The Nanjing Massacre [b] or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking [c]) was the mass murder of Chinese civilians by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking and retreat of the National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The City Wall of Nanjing was designed by the Hongwu Emperor (1328–1398) after he founded the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) and established Nanjing as the capital in 1368. To consolidate his sovereignty and defend the city against coastal pirates, he adopted the suggestions of advisor Zhu Sheng to build a higher city wall , to expand strategic ...
Nanjing is a political and cultural city with more than 2,500 years of history as a city and nearly 500 years of history as a capital. Many dynasties or regimes in history have been established here, so it is called the "Ancient Capital of Six Dynasties". Because of its historical origins, Nanjing has many cultural heritages.
Nanjing's stone city walls as photographed in 1930. On November 20 the Chinese Army and teams of conscripted laborers began to hurriedly bolster Nanjing's defenses both inside and outside the city. [31] [34] Nanjing itself was surrounded by formidable stone walls stretching almost fifty kilometers (31 miles) around the entire city. [35]
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The Treaty of Nanking was the peace treaty which ended the First Opium War (1839–1842) between Great Britain and the Qing dynasty of China on 29 August 1842. It was the first of what the Chinese later termed the "unequal treaties".