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Gansu


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Gansu

Kansu

Place Type
province
Description
Served as corridor for great highway to West by "Silk Road"; part of Wei kingdom for centuries; controlled by Kublai Khan 13th cen.; part of Shaanxi province under Mings; is traversed by Great Wall; produces wheat, cotton & oil.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Getty Vocabulary Program rules; NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);

Born

Zhang Hongtu (Chinese, active United States, born 1943)

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