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ID: 7001922
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001922
Record Type:
administrative
Datong (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 40 05 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 40.0833
decimal degrees
Long: 113 28 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 113.4667
decimal degrees
Note:
An ancient town with a fortress dating to the Ch'in & Han dynasties; has cave temples of Yunkang with stone Buddha images; was a Ming frontier defense area; trades in livestock, coal & furs; scene of fighting during Chinese civil war 1946.
Names:
Datong
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Ta-t'ung
(
C
,
V
)
Tatung
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
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Zhongguo
(nation) (
P
)
............
Shanxi
(province) (
P
)
................
Datong
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 221 BC
city (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Datong..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
53
Ta-t'ung..........
[
VP
]
.................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
357
Tatung..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1190
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
53
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
357
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
1190
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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