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... Yangtze River and a major industrial and communications centre . Rich in history , it served seven times as the capital of regional empires , twice as the seat of revolutionary gov- ernments , once ( during World War II ) as the site of ...
... Yangtze River and a major industrial and communications centre . Rich in history , it served seven times as the capital of regional empires , twice as the seat of revolutionary gov- ernments , once ( during World War II ) as the site of ...
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... Yangtze River , which connects the city with the Yangtze Delta and with central China . Nanking is con- nected by rail to Shanghai and to major Chinese cities to the north . Another railroad leading south extends to T'ung - ling in ...
... Yangtze River , which connects the city with the Yangtze Delta and with central China . Nanking is con- nected by rail to Shanghai and to major Chinese cities to the north . Another railroad leading south extends to T'ung - ling in ...
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... Yangtze . These regimes were dominated by military men whose rivalries weakened the government . But in Nanking progress was made in areas other than politics , and its population grew to 1,000,000 during the Southern Liang . Bountiful ...
... Yangtze . These regimes were dominated by military men whose rivalries weakened the government . But in Nanking progress was made in areas other than politics , and its population grew to 1,000,000 during the Southern Liang . Bountiful ...
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